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What freezing eggs really means for women and employers - as published in HR review
...Discrimination against women In an effort to attract and retain talented young women, Apple and Facebook run the risk of facing large discrimination claims and may have taken one step too far. Whils...
Paul Hayward
...discrimination claims, with one claim attracting national press, and having various claims of discrimination against an educational institution struck out at a preliminary hearing. Additionally, Paul ...
Redundancy and Maternity Leave: Extent of Obligation to Offer Alternative Employment
...discrimination because of maternity leave. The tribunal should have asked why M had not been offered the new role and only if this was because she was on maternity leave was discrimination made out. ...
Dress Requirement did not Indirectly Discrimination against Muslim Women
Dress Requirement did not Indirectly Discrimination against Muslim Women A requirement that clothing must not present a tripping hazard did not indirectly discriminate against Muslim women. In Begum v...
Absence of Umbrella Contract Relevant to Employment Status
Absence of Umbrella Contract Relevant to Employment Status When deciding whether someone employed on an assignment by assignment basis has the necessary employment status to bring a discrimination cla...
Removing Christian director who spoke out against homosexuality and same-sex adoption was lawful
...discrimination Mr Page brought a claim for direct discrimination. He asserted that the Trust removed him from office because of his religious beliefs. The employment tribunal rejected hi...
Mind The Pay Gap - as published on HR Director online
...discrimination in the workplace is alive and well. UK laws dealing with inequality in the workplace are now contained in the Equality Act 2010. The law protects employees from discrimination at work,...
Is it time to retire the University of Oxford’s enforced retirement policy?
...discrimination claim, they need to contact ACAS within three months of the discrimination, so by 29 December 2022 if the act of discrimination is dismissal on 30 September 2022. If the claim...
Can settlement agreements settle future claims?
...discrimination complaints had been referred to in the long list of claims being waived by Mr Bathgate did not mean that the particular age discrimination complaint had been identified in the settlemen...
Settlement agreements can settle unknown future claims
...discrimination claims Mr Bathgate claimed this was direct or indirect age discrimination and brought a claim for post-employment discrimination. His employer argued that he could not bring the clai...
Peter Daly
...discrimination and whistleblowing law and both Chambers and The Legal 500 rank him as one of the UK’s leading employment lawyers and Next Generation Partner with reviews including: What people s...
How Does Seldon Impact on the Provision of Employment Benefits?
...discrimination face a more stringent test than for indirect discrimination. They must rely on aims linked to social policy aims and cannot rely on purely personal business aims. The Court accepted t...
Should You Ever Sue Your Boss for Discrimination? - as published in the Telegraph
...Discrimination? - as published in the Telegraph Former police officer Carol Howard has won £37,000 from the Met, after two years fighting her case against racial and gender discrimination. A victory,...
Dismissal for Refusing to Leave Husband was Religious Discrimination
Dismissal for Refusing to Leave Husband was Religious Discrimination An employer discriminated against a teacher on grounds of religion when it dismissed her because she refused to leave her husband...
Employment tribunal wrong to strike out menopause disability discrimination claim
...discrimination claim Menopause disability discrimination claimThe Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled in Rooney v Leicester City Council that an employment tribunal had wrongly decided that a woman s...
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...
Doyle Clayton staff promotions 2024
...discrimination, with a particular emphasis on sex, race and disability discrimination matters. She predominantly acts for corporate clients, ranging from scale-ups to established UK businesses and g...
Dan Begbie-Clench
...discrimination claims. What people say about DanDan is highly regarded in both legal directories - The Legal 500 and Chambers. The Legal 500 describes him as ... "commercial, extraordinaril...
Discrimination Cannot be Justified on Grounds of Cost Alone
Discrimination Cannot be Justified on Grounds of Cost Alone An employer who timed a redundancy dismissal notice to ensure an employee did not become entitled to an enhanced pension, did not discrimina...
Why employers need to provide regular and effective equality and anti-harassment training
...discrimination. A related benefit is that the training might give the employer a defence to a claim by arguing that it took all reasonable steps to prevent the discrimination from occurring. This defe...