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Employee Suffering from Work-related Stress Not Disabled
...discrimination claim, claiming that he was disabled by virtue of his dyslexia and stress. He had been diagnosed with dyslexia in 1996 when at university, but he had not mentioned his dyslexia to coll...
Justifying Steps under Absence Management policies
...discrimination arising from disability has to justify its treatment of the particular employee and the steps it has taken under that policy in relation to that employee. The employment tribunal had b...
Brexit Secretary questioned about employment law intentions
...discrimination compensation give a legally binding guarantee that citizens of other EU countries currently living and working in the UK and using public services will be able to continue to do so unaf...
EasyJet rosters indirectly discriminated against breastfeeding mothers
...discrimination on grounds of sex. Speedread EasyJet’s refusal to allow two members of cabin crew to restrict their hours so that they could continue breastfeeding amounted to indirect discriminati...
Discriminatory shared parental pay policy: father awarded £27,000 compensation
...discrimination arising from the terms of an employer’s enhanced shared parental pay scheme. Speedread An employment tribunal awarded £27,000 for sex discrimination arising from the terms of an empl...
Early Conciliation Certificate Covered Constructive Dismissal Occurring After Certificate Issued
...discrimination. The employer argued in its defence that that the unfair dismissal claim was not properly instituted. Before a prospective claimant presents a claim relating to any matter, they have ...
Job Applicants Not interested in Obtaining Job Cannot Claim Discrimination
...Discrimination Job applicants who apply for a job simply so that they can claim compensation for discrimination are not protected by discrimination laws. Speedread The European Court of Justice has...
Employers may have to protect a disabled employee’s pay
...discrimination and unfair dismissal. The employment tribunal ruled that G4S had breached its duty to make reasonable adjustments. It was a reasonable adjustment to employ Mr Powell as a key runner ...
Number of new and expectant mothers forced to leave jobs has doubled
...discrimination claims from three months to six months; that assurances should be given that there will be no erosion of rights and protections as a result of the uncertainty following the vote to lea...
Reasonable adjustments: no need to show adjustment will work
...discrimination. The employment tribunal ruled that the employer had failed to make two reasonable adjustments: providing technical aids in good time (and in any event well before the monitoring of he...
Refusing flexible working requests
...discrimination. The employment tribunal upheld her claim. Her employer had applied a provision, criterion or practice (PCP) of being able to work over 50% of rosters and on Saturdays. This put wome...
Tax and NICs Treatment of Termination Payments: Government Response to Consultation
...discrimination fall within this exemption; The exemption for legal costs will be retained; The foreign service exemption will be abolished, except in relation to seefarers. The Government has al...
Corbyn v Smith: employment law proposals
...discrimination questionnaires Requiring companies over a certain size to publish race equality plans. Improving individual rights by: Enhancing the definition of a “worker” to outlaw bogus self...
Ban on Islamic Headscarf Direct Religious Discrimination
...discrimination, as well as indirect discrimination, is of particular concern as direct religious discrimination cannot be justified. Although there is a genuine occupational requirement exception, th...
Referring to Settlement Negotiations in Unfair Dismissal Claims
...discrimination, where S111A privilege does not apply. If communications are not also privileged under the without prejudice rule (which does apply in discrimination cases), a tribunal will have to co...
Ensuring volunteers don't become employees - as Published in Charity Finance
...discrimination purposes. True volunteers are currently outside the principal protections offered by unfair dismissal and anti-discrimination legislation. In most cases the employment status of an in...
Mistreatment of Migrant Workers due to Immigration Status not Race Discrimination
...Discrimination The Supreme Court has ruled that the mistreatment of two Nigerian migrant workers by their employers was not race discrimination. Speedread The Supreme Court has rejected claims of ra...
Absence of Umbrella Contract Relevant to Employment Status
Absence of Umbrella Contract Relevant to Employment Status When deciding whether someone employed on an assignment by assignment basis has the necessary employment status to bring a discrimination cla...
Expectation that Employee Work Long Hours Engaged Reasonable Adjustments Duty
...discrimination. Disability Discrimination He argued that his employer had breached its duty to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate his disability. His employer denied that it was under a duty...
Justice Committee Reports on Impact of Employment Tribunal Fees
...discrimination, for whom, at the least, the time limit of three months for bringing a claim should be reviewed. The Committee stated that it is unable to state conclusively whether these measures wo...