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The importance of adapting contracts for overseas employees
...discrimination and other statutory employment claims if their employment has a closer connection with Great Britain than the laws of any other country. In considering this question, one of the factor...
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Failure to enhance pay for man seeking shared parental leave was direct sex discrimination
...discrimination A male employee has succeeded in his claim of direct sex discrimination after his employer refused to enhance his pay during shared parental leave. Speedread An employer dis...
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No Disability Discrimination where Employee made Redundant after Absence for Cancer Treatment
No Disability Discrimination where Employee made Redundant after Absence for Cancer Treatment An employer had not discriminated against an employee when it made him redundant after identifying that it...
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Requirement to sit multiple choice test was disability discrimination
...discrimination and discrimination arising from disability succeeded. The adjustment requested by Ms Brookes was also reasonable and so GLS had breached its duty to make reasonable adjustments. GLS a...
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Indirect discrimination: no need to show why claimant disadvantaged
Indirect discrimination: no need to show why claimant disadvantaged An employee claiming that the civil service Cores Skill Assessment test was indirectly discriminatory on grounds of race and age did...
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Asserted Disability Insufficient for Disability Harassment Claim
...discrimination claims will need to prove that they have a disability as defined by the Equality Act. A mere assertion that they are disabled is insufficient. It is therefore important to determine t...
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Ban on Religious, Political and Philosophical Symbols Lawful
...discrimination. This is not a new proposition or game-changer when it comes to how the UK has traditionally dealt with discrimination. Second, the ECJ decided that a company rule prohibiting all emplo...
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Type 2 Diabetes May Be a Disability
...discrimination. A preliminary hearing was held to determine whether he was disabled. Based on written medical evidence, the employment judge ruled that he was not disabled. His condition was contro...
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Employee Sacked for Gross Misconduct Wins Disability Discrimination Claim
...Discrimination Claim An employer has been found to be guilty of discrimination arising from disability even though the medical evidence available to it at the time showed no link between the employee...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...