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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...
Flexible maternity and paternity leave: Getting it right - as published in Edge online
...discrimination laws. Discrimination risks Women only First of all, you can’t generally decide to offer the benefit to one sex only. This will amount to direct sex discrimination. It might be possib...
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...
Mind the pay gap: enforcing the Equality Act in the workplace - as published in the Lawyer
...discrimination. Anti-discrimination legislation in the UK was consolidated into the Equality Act 2010, yet the pay gap is widening. The current government publicly pledged to reduce “red tape” and emp...
Serial Litigants: The tide is turning
...discrimination claim. The paper states that he “has initiated actions against at least 60 firms over three years even though he does not apply for the jobs” and it is thought that he has earned thousa...
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...
Robert Maddox
...discrimination/equal pay matter in the technology sector Six figure settlement for a senior executive dismissed for redundancy Acting for a charity in defending a multiple allegation di...
Olivia Geary
...discrimination and unfair dismissal claims. Experience and Qualifications Qualified in 2022 Experience in Employment Law since 2018 Professional Memberships Member of the Employment Lawyers Asso...
Tribunals Cannot Apportion Liability to Pay Discrimination Compensation
...Discrimination Compensation Tribunals do not have power to apportion liability to pay discrimination compensation where two respondents are found liable for the same discriminatory act. Both responde...
Workers Deprived of Rest Breaks Not Entitled to Injury to Feelings Compensation
...discrimination. Where an injury to feelings award is made in discrimination cases, it is based on the effect of the discrimination on the claimant, not on the default of the perpetrator. By contrast,...
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...
Law Degree Requirement Indirectly Discriminatory Where Employee Unable to Obtain Degree Before Retirement
...discrimination. H was successful before the employment tribunal but the EAT and CA both considered that there had been no indirect discrimination on grounds of age. The barrier to promotion was not h...
Disciplinary Action for Imposing Religious Views Not Religious Discrimination
Disciplinary Action for Imposing Religious Views Not Religious Discrimination An employer who disciplined an employee who tried to foist her religion on to a junior member of staff had not discrimina...
Disability discrimination: Failure to consider part-time working meant dismissal not justified
...discrimination arising from disability. The tribunal found his dismissal was unfair due to the employer’s failure to consider a return to work on a part-time basis. However it rejected his discriminat...
£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...
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...
Employer Liable for Full Value of Death in Service Benefits
...discrimination. Whilst employed, F was entitled to death in service benefits worth £85,000. He was dismissed on capability grounds five days before an operation which he hoped would enable him to ret...
Gender Critical Beliefs recognised as a Protected Characteristic in Discrimination Law - Forstater v CGD Europe
...Discrimination Law - Forstater v CGD Europe Gender Critical Beliefs - Case Win In a landmark judgment, Doyle Clayton’s client Maya Forstater has succeeded in securing discrimination protections...
Sex Discrimination: Referees Beware!
Sex Discrimination: Referees Beware! In Bullimore v Pothecary Witham Weld Solicitors and another, the EAT found that the law firm, Ms Bullimore’s ex-employer, was liable for her loss of earnings as ...
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...