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Sex Discrimination: Some Guidance on Awards and Recommendations
Sex Discrimination: Some Guidance on Awards and Recommendations In The Governing Body of St Andrew's Catholic School and others v Blundell, the EAT has provided some useful guidance in respect of com...
Amandeep Halet
...discrimination cases, handling difficult dismissals, disciplinary and grievance processes, drafting contractual documentation to providing strategic and commercial advice on business reorganisations a...
Injury to Feelings in the Workplace Awards from Tribunals Set to Increase
...discrimination in the workplace. The Presidents will review, and if necessary amend, the Guidance in March 2018 and annually thereafter, with the new Guidance coming into effect in respe...
Employment tribunal compensation to increase in April
Employment tribunal compensation to increase in April Employment tribunal compensation to increase in April Unfair dismissal, redundancy and discrimination compensation limits will increase from Apr...
Rosanna Proctor
...discrimination and unfair dismissal claims. Rosanna also has experience in drafting contractual documents and providing advice relating to dismissals, disciplinary and grievance processes, reorganisat...
Employer entitled to calculate ill-health pension by reference to part time salary
...discrimination. We understand that Mr Williams is seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. Implications Benefit schemes which only benefit disabled employees will not fall foul of d...
Failing to conduct appropriate risk assessment for breastfeeding mothers is sex discrimination
Failing to conduct appropriate risk assessment for breastfeeding mothers is sex discrimination Speedread When assessing health and safety risks for a breastfeeding mother, the employer must assess th...
Acas Guidance on Managing Bereavement in the Workplace
...discrimination and addressing bullying; and A set of Frequently Asked Questions. The guidance has been compiled in conjunction with Cruse Bereavement Care, the UK’s largest bereavement charity and...
Government rejects call for better pregnancy and maternity protection
...discrimination. It has rejected the majority of the Committee’s recommendations but has committed to strengthening the protection of women in relation to redundancy whilst pregnant or when returning ...
Disability Discrimination: A Move to Another’s Job is a Reasonable Adjustment
Disability Discrimination: A Move to Another’s Job is a Reasonable Adjustment In Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police v Jelic, the EAT was asked to consider the extent of a Chief Constable’s duty...
Age Discrimination: Considering retirement requests
Age Discrimination: Considering retirement requests In Ayodele v Compass Group plc, an Employment Tribunal has found that a request to work beyond the age of 65 years (the Default Retirement Age) must...
First Fees Challenge Fails
...discrimination cases indirectly discriminates against those with protected characteristics. The challenge failed mainly because the Court considered it too soon to assess the impact of fees, meaning ...
Calculating Ill-health Pension by Reference to Part-time Salary Not Disability Discrimination
Calculating Ill-health Pension by Reference to Part-time Salary Not Disability Discrimination An employer did not discriminate against a disabled employee when it calculated his ill-health pension on ...
Injury to feelings awards: increases from 6 April 2018
...discrimination claim could increase for claims issued on or after 6 April 2018, following new guidance issued by the Presidents of the Employment Tribunals in England and Wales and Scotland. &nbs...
Tackling gender inequality: Government Equalities Office outlines plans
...discrimination What will be the Government Equalities Office plan for tackling workplace harassment and discrimination? The Government Equalities Office will consult on the effective...
Employment Tribunal to Refer Questions on Surrogacy to the ECJ
...discrimination. Although the tribunal held that neither domestic nor European legislation specifically protects the Claimant, as pregnancy and maternity are protected by European law as fundamental r...
Generation Y Most Negative Towards Older Staff - as published on HR Grapevine
...discrimination. 16.3% believed that workers over 60 were less valuable than other colleagues, more than twice as many as any other age group. Over a quarter (27.4%) of 25-34 year olds thought that par...
Whistleblowing protection extended by Supreme Court
...discrimination on grounds of status. As the legislation did not provide her with whistleblower protection, it discriminated against her in the exercise of her right to freedom of expression. This ...
UK Must Protect Against Dismissal on Grounds of Political Beliefs
...discrimination on political grounds which was not covered by discrimination laws. In Redfearn v United Kingdom, R sought a declaration from the ECHR that UK law is incompatible with the Convention (h...
Victimisation and Discrimination — Important Lessons for Employers
...discrimination, that none of Commerzbank's witnesses seemed to understand the concept of discrimination, and also from Commerzbank's failure to answer a question in B's discrimination questionnaire ab...