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Employment Tribunal rules unfair dismissal, after the N-word is used during anti-racism training
...discrimination. However, the judgment found that the Bank did not have reasonable grounds to consider the claimant committed gross misconduct, even before it took his dyslexia into consideration. Em...
Allison Bailey wins costs award against Garden Court Chambers
...discrimination and victimisation claims against Garden Court based on her gender critical beliefs and was awarded injury to feelings compensation and aggravated damages. Her separate claim that LGBTQ ...
Rejecting a flexible working request - Implications for employers
...discrimination claims, and it means provision, criterion, or practice - in other words, some sort of rule or policy. And, in an indirect discrimination case the PCP or the rule or policy is said to ...
Forstater: effective protections for gender critical beliefs at work
Forstater: effective protections for gender critical beliefs at work Read the full article in ELA Briefing Maya Forstater has succeeded in her claim that she was discriminated against because of he...
Bonuses: Discretionary vs Contractual explained
...discrimination. With all of this in mind, we advise employers to be careful about exercising their discretion not to award a bonus to an employee, even if the scheme is said to be discretionary. This ...
The without prejudice rule: exaggerated allegations and unambiguous impropriety
...discrimination and equal pay, after her role was put at risk of redundancy following her return from maternity leave. She argued that a colleague had been wrongly promoted ahead of her and she attache...
Algorithms in the workplace - People not Processes
...discrimination and a lack of accountability. The two most obvious risk areas are the threat of increased management control without the corresponding consent from the workforce (particularly in areas ...
Stress in the workplace – what employers need to know
...Discrimination claims Breach of health and safety obligations Breach of trust and confidence by the employer How can employers support employees' well-being? With so many potential risks, ...
Mental Health - Lockdown and Working from Home (Session 2)
...Discrimination 6. Minutes 28-29. Mental health is a disability 7. Minutes 29-32. Mental health is now a pressing topic 8. Minutes 32-40. What proactive steps can employers be taki...
How to handle retirement - as published in Education Today
...discrimination claim. It is important to be aware that asking a teacher about their retirement plans can amount to less favourable treatment and result in a claim for direct age discrimination. Repea...
Headscarves and high heels: can the law interfere with what we wear? - as published in the Times
...discrimination interacts with dress codes. Discrimination law has two principal sources. EU’s Equal Treatment Framework Directive (2000/78/EC) prevents direct and indirect discrimination based on “p...
Home Office releases updated right to work guidance – again!
Home Office releases updated right to work guidance – again! Right to work guidance update In the third right to work update in as many months, the Home Office has updated its ‘Employer right t...
Seemingly innocuous: the minefield of asking questions at interview
...discrimination and be used as evidence of discrimination in a subsequent employment tribunal claim: “Is English your first language?” – For many jobs a requirement that candidates can speak Eng...
New duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment
...discrimination, harassment and victimisation have 6 months to bring a claim However, it will not be extending protections under the Equality Act 2010 to volunteers and interns (although it recogni...
Jingle all the way (to the Employment Tribunal)
...discrimination to employees not turning up for work the next day, it is a minefield for HR professionals to navigate their way through in order to avoid finding themselves at the Employment Tribunal a...
Taylor Review Good Work Report Published
...discrimination, the Government should review and, in any event, consolidate in one place guidance on the legislation so as to bring clarity to both employers and employees. It should also consid...
Dealing with harassment at work
...discrimination by management and repeated rebuffs from their human resources department. While Uber has been quick to say it is investigating her complaints, stories of this nature emphasise that hara...
Brexit Bites - Part 1: EU citizens – will they stay or will they go?
...discrimination unless the employer can show a genuine business reason for this selective hiring (difficult in such uncertain times) and indeed, such a step may well be an over-zealous measure. Some b...
Employer’s £42,000 SMP Bill Despite Employee Agreeing ACAS Settlement
...discrimination which she settled through ACAS. Her employer paid her £60,000 in full and final settlement of all claims. She subsequently complained to HMRC that her employer had not paid her SMP. ...
An employee has asked about breastfeeding at work. What are our legal obligations?
...Discrimination Employers must be mindful not to discriminate against employees who breastfeed. For example, although there is no statutory right to take time off to breastfeed, employers should try t...