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Civil Partners and Same Sex Spouses Entitled to Equal Survivors’ Benefits
...discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. The Court also disagreed with the argument that changes in law do not apply retrospectively, holding that the question of entitlement to a spouse’s...
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Supreme Court Rules Employment Tribunal Fees Unlawful
...discrimination claims and are therefore disproportionately affected by the higher fees charged for discrimination claims. Judgment The High Court and Court of Appeal rejected Unison’s a...
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Pregnant Workers may be Protected Before Informing Employer of Pregnancy
...discrimination and dismissal where their employer knows of their pregnancy and acts unlawfully as a result. It remains to be seen whether the European Court of Justice (ECJ) will agree with the Advoca...
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Failing to conduct appropriate risk assessment for breastfeeding mothers is sex discrimination
Failing to conduct appropriate risk assessment for breastfeeding mothers is sex discrimination Speedread When assessing health and safety risks for a breastfeeding mother, the employer must assess th...
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Employer unaware of link between misconduct and disability still liable for discrimination
...discrimination An employer who dismissed an employee for gross misconduct has been found liable for discrimination arising from disability, even though it was unaware that the employee’s conduct was a...
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Police force discriminated on grounds of perceived disability
...discrimination claim. She did not allege that she was disabled as her hearing loss did not have, and was not likely to have, a substantial adverse effect on her ability to carry out day to day a...
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Enhancing maternity pay but not shared parental pay is not direct sex discrimination
Enhancing maternity pay but not shared parental pay is not direct sex discrimination Employers who enhance pay during maternity leave but not during shared parental leave are not directly discriminati...
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Employee with “pre-cancerous lesion” deemed disabled
...discrimination, arguing that that she was suffering from cancer and was therefore deemed to be disabled under the Equality Act 2010. There was a variety of medical evidence about her cond...
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Collective redundancies: no priority treatment for pregnant workers
...discrimination or unfair dismissal where they know of the employee’s pregnancy and act unlawfully as a result.
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Tribunal wrong to decide that enhancing maternity pay but not shared parental pay was not indirect sex discrimination
...discrimination only. Decision The EAT ruled that the tribunal’s approach was wrong. The comparison exercise in indirect discrimination claims is different from direct discriminatio...
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Supreme Court rules Pimlico plumber was a worker, not self-employed
...discrimination and holiday pay. The employment tribunal had to consider whether he was an employee, worker or self-employed. It ruled that he was not an employee and so could not claim unf...
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Written warning for sickness absence was disability discrimination
...discrimination Issuing a written warning for disability-related absence was discrimination arising from disability as the employer had not shown that the warning was a proportionate means of achieving...
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Advantageous treatment was not unfavourable treatment even though it could have been more advantageous
...discrimination arising from disability claim, even though the treatment could have been more advantageous. Facts In Williams v Trustees Of Swansea University Pension and Life Assur...
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Dismissal for cohabiting not religious discrimination
...discrimination where the alleged discriminator acts because of its own religious beliefs. The Supreme Court has made it clear that the purpose of discrimination law is to protect people with a protect...
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No disability discrimination where employee refused to move workstations in mistaken belief this would exacerbate her osteoarthritis
...discrimination arising from disability therefore failed. Implications This decision provides a welcome restriction for employers on the scope of claims for discrimination arising from disabili...
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Employer’s policies highly relevant when assessing reasonable adjustments
...discrimination claim alleging that HMRC had breached its duty to make reasonable adjustments. The employment tribunal rejected her claim, ruling that the alternative parking arrangements HMRC had put ...
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Gay head teacher succeeds in unfair dismissal and discrimination claims due to biased disciplinary process
Gay head teacher succeeds in unfair dismissal and discrimination claims due to biased disciplinary process Serious failings and bias throughout the disciplinary process entitled a gay head teacher to ...
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£16,000 injury to feelings compensation for one-off act of harassment
...discrimination. They can award higher compensation if the effect of the discrimination on the employee justifies this. What are the compensation bands for injury to feelings? Compensatio...
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Paying women on maternity leave more than men on shared parental leave lawful
...discrimination. His employer argued that he should have brought his claim as an equal pay claim and not indirect sex discrimination. What was the ruling of The Court of Appeal in the case...
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No deemed knowledge of disability as employee hid mental ill-health
...discrimination. What did the employment tribunal rule in this case? Her employer admitted she was disabled because of her mental impairments but said it did not know this. The employment tribu...