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Peter Daly - New Hire for Doyle Clayton
...discrimination claims. A number of his recent cases are amongst the most high-profile litigation of their type and have helped to shape the law in whistleblowing and discrimination. Pet...
Pimlico plumber loses £74,000 holiday pay claim
...discrimination and holiday pay. Pimlico Plumbers disputed he was a worker, maintaining that he was self-employed. The employment tribunal ruled that Mr Smith was a worker and Pimlico’s appeals all the...
Employers can pay more during adoption leave than shared parental leave
...discrimination. Employment tribunal rejects sex discrimination claimMr Price claimed it was unlawful sex discrimination to pay a man who took shared parental leave less than a woman who took mate...
Why is menopause a workplace issue?
...discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 from the first day of their employment. Potential claims therefore include unfair dismissal, direct or indirect discrimination (on grounds of sex, age and/or...
Menopause discrimination: inquiry launched
...discrimination at work. The inquiry will examine the extent of discrimination faced by menopausal people in the workplace, and investigate how Government policy and workplace pr...
Office-working requirement discriminated against carer
...discrimination by association. She argued that Nationwide was discriminating against her due to her mother’s disability. Unlike for direct discrimination, the indirect discrimination...
Employment tribunal wrong to strike out menopause disability discrimination claim
...discrimination claim Menopause disability discrimination claimThe Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled in Rooney v Leicester City Council that an employment tribunal had wrongly decided that a woman s...
Keeping Children Safe in Education - Top tips for dealing with ‘low-level’ concerns
Keeping Children Safe in Education - Top tips for dealing with ‘low-level’ concerns Department for Education releases new guidance The latest updates to the statutory guidance introduce a new duty o...
Peter Daly Selected for The Lawyer Hot 100
...discrimination, and cemented judicial recognition of the reality that women are more often than not primary child-carers, and therefore policies which disadvantage child-carers are indirectly discrimi...
The power of individuals to create change
...discrimination policies and better leave. Whilst commentators suggest that many of those demands (and the health & safety issues in particular) were driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, we should not ove...
Are Dentists Workers?
...discrimination. Implications We anticipate that the findings will have significant implications for NHS Dentistry. Ms Sejpal’s relationship with the dental practice is...
Employee with long COVID was disabled
...discrimination following his dismissal on grounds of ill-health. Burke v Turning Point Scotland Mr Burke was employed as a caretaker from April 2001 until his dismissal on 13 August 2021. He...
Do employers have to provide facilities for employees to express breastmilk?
...discrimination and sex harassment against the school. The employment tribunal upheld the sex harassment claim but dismissed the claims for direct and indirect sex discrimination. Sex harassment ...
Forstater v CGD Europe & Others: Maya Forstater succeeds in Employment Tribunal
...discrimination on the basis of her gender critical beliefs. Gender critical beliefs – in summary that biological sex is real, immutable, binary and important – have been the subject of a great deal...
Allison Bailey wins her discrimination case
Allison Bailey wins her discrimination case Garden Court Chambers discriminated against gender critical barrister In one of the most keenly followed Employment Tribunal cases of recent years, D...
Is it time to retire the University of Oxford’s enforced retirement policy?
...discrimination claim, they need to contact ACAS within three months of the discrimination, so by 29 December 2022 if the act of discrimination is dismissal on 30 September 2022. If the claim...
Can settlement agreements settle future claims?
...discrimination complaints had been referred to in the long list of claims being waived by Mr Bathgate did not mean that the particular age discrimination complaint had been identified in the settlemen...
Menopause and the Workplace Report - Government rejects key recommendations
...discrimination. The Committee made a number of recommendations to address these issues. Government response to the Women and Equalities Committee’s recommendations In January 2023, the Government p...
Flexible working requests and indirect discrimination
...discrimination claim Ms Glover brought a claim for indirect sex discrimination, arguing that her employer’s original requirement for her to work flexibly was a provision, requirement or practice (PC...
Professors successful in age discriminations claim against Oxford University's mandatory retirement age
Professors successful in age discriminations claim against Oxford University's mandatory retirement age An Employment Tribunal has found that the University of Oxford’s enforced retirement age cannot ...