Search
Showing 184 results for discrimination
Recent Cases
LLP Members Qualify for Worker Rights
...discrimination as the Equality Act 2010 extends to discrimination against partners and LLP members.
Recent Cases
Covert Recordings of Disciplinary and Grievance Hearings Could be Relied On
...discrimination claim. In Punjab National Bank (International) Limited v Gosain, G attended a grievance and disciplinary hearing and secretly recorded both the public discussions at the hearings and th...
Recent Cases
ECJ Rules on Surrogacy and Entitlement to Maternity Leave
...discrimination, as a father who receives a baby under a surrogacy arrangement is not entitled to leave either. The woman is not therefore treated less favourably. In addition, there was no question ...
Recent Cases
No Discrimination Where Employee Dismissed for Absence due to Post-Natal Depression
...discrimination, direct sex discrimination and unfair dismissal. L’s unfair dismissal claim was upheld but her discrimination claims were rejected and she appealed to the EAT. The EAT dismissed her ap...
Recent Cases
Post-Termination Victimisation Unlawful under Equality Act
...discrimination, issued tribunal proceedings, given evidence in connection with discrimination proceedings or done anything else under or by reference to discrimination laws.
Recent Cases
Belief in “Democratic Socialism” Protected under Equality Act
...discrimination on grounds of philosophical belief. O believed that the Labour Party enshrined a set of core beliefs, displayed on its membership card, that are recognised by the general public and wh...
Recent Cases
Employer Wrong to “Blindly Accept” Occupational Health Opinion on Disability
...Discrimination Act. After G raised a grievance that his employer was not doing enough to ensure his health and safety at work, G’s doctor signed him off work with reactive depression. G claimed that ...
Recent Cases
Redundancy Scheme Paying Higher Payments to Older Employees was Lawful
...discrimination. The Court of Appeal upheld the tribunal decision that the difference in treatment was objectively justified by the strong social policy objective of providing a financial cushion tha...
Recent Cases
Confusion Caused by Employer Results in Claim Being Out of Time
...discrimination cases where time limits will be extended if it is just and equitable to do so. The legal position is that where words of resignation are unambiguous, an employee will be deemed to h...
Recent Cases
Paying for Private Counselling was Reasonable Adjustment
...discrimination, alleging that by not paying for her to have psychiatric and counselling sessions her employer had breached its duty to make reasonable adjustments. The employment tribunal upheld her...
Recent Cases
Successful Appeal Avoided Indirect Sex Discrimination
...Discrimination An employee who appealed successfully against her employer's initial refusal of her request to work part-time had not suffered indirect sex discrimination. The subsequent granting of he...
Recent Cases
Dismissal for Admitted Misconduct was Victimisation
...discrimination claim and continued to request adjustments. The tribunal upheld his claims. It considered that the discrimination claim and on-going requests for adjustments had led the employer to reg...
Recent Cases
Death in Service Benefits Recoverable in Full
...discrimination. In Fox v British Airways, F had been entitled to death in service benefits worth £85,000 (three times salary) under the pension scheme. He was dismissed on capability grounds five day...
Recent Cases
Employee Dismissed after Multiple Discrimination Complaints had been Victimised
...Discrimination Complaints had been Victimised The dismissal of an employee who brought a series of grievances and claims concerning complaints of race discrimination amounted to victimisation. In W...
Recent Cases
Redundancy Selection and Parental Leave
...discrimination contrary to the Equal Treatment Directive. It is clear from this case that employers selecting for redundancy must apply the same criteria to all employees, irrespective of whether they...
Recent Cases
Compulsory Retirement Age of 65 Justified
...discrimination by being required to retire at the age 65 in accordance with terms of the partnership deed, or whether the compulsory retirement age was justified. The case proceeded all the way to the...
Recent Cases
No Victimisation Where Employee Required to Relocate After Grievance
...discrimination. The relocation proposal had only come about after B had withdrawn his consent to Acas mediation and was a reasonable one in the circumstances and arguably the best solution to the pro...
Recent Cases
Victimisation Taking Place After Termination is Unlawful
...discrimination legislation clearly made this unlawful. Due to the drafting of the relevant provisions of the Equality Act, the question of whether it protects against post-employment victimisation ha...
Recent Cases
Homophobic Comments Were Evidence of Discrimination
...Discrimination Homophobic comments made by a football club’s shareholder were evidence of discrimination. In Asociaţia ACCEPT v Consiliul Naţional pentru Combaterea Discriminării, the shareholder of a...
Recent Cases
Employee Awarded £72,000 after Exclusion from Voluntary Redundancy Scheme
...discrimination is that the victim should be placed in the position they would have been in had no discrimination occurred. The tribunal found that had M been able to apply for voluntary redundancy sh...