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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...
Equality Act 2010: No Protection Against Post-employment Victimisation
...discrimination claim. Not long after lodging the claim Mr J requested a reference, and although R provided one it was unfavourable. On the basis of this Mr J added a victimisation claim to his age dis...
Employer Could Not Join Former Employee as Respondent to a Discrimination Claim
...Discrimination Claim An employment tribunal could not use its case management powers to allow a respondent employer in a sex discrimination claim to add a former employee as a second respondent. Emp...
Record-breaking £4.5 Million Discrimination Award
...Discrimination Award The Leeds Employment Tribunal has awarded record-breaking compensation of 4.5 million pounds to Dr Eva Michalak following a campaign of sex and race discrimination by her former e...
Discrimination Compensation: Duty to Mitigate Loss
Discrimination Compensation: Duty to Mitigate Loss In Debique v Ministry of Defence the EAT upheld an employment tribunal’s decision not to award compensation for loss of earnings following successfu...
Discrimination: Directors can be joint and severally liable
Discrimination: Directors can be joint and severally liable In Bungay and another v Sanini and others, the EAT found that two Board members were acting as agents of the Claimant’s employer and were h...
Race discrimination: A row about cornrows
...discrimination but not sex discrimination. Case summaryG is of African-Caribbean ethnicity. His hair (which for reasons of belief/family tradition, has not been cut since birth) is kept in cornrows. ...
Discrimination: Will a conversation between two colleagues about the sexuality of a third constitute discrimination?
Discrimination: Will a conversation between two colleagues about the sexuality of a third constitute discrimination? In Grant v H M Land Registry, the Court of Appeal was asked to consider whether idl...
Discrimination: No time off to attend Mosque did not amount to indirect discrimination
Discrimination: No time off to attend Mosque did not amount to indirect discrimination In Cherfi v G4S Security Services Ltd, the EAT considered that G4S’s refusal to allow Mr Cherfi time off to att...
Disability Discrimination: Retirement on ill health grounds
...Discrimination: Retirement on ill health grounds In Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v Mylott, the EAT considers that an employer had not failed to make reasonable adjustments when it did not f...
Disability Discrimination: Is continuing discretionary sick pay a reasonable adjustment?
...Discrimination: Is continuing discretionary sick pay a reasonable adjustment? The EAT has provided useful guidance as to when extending discretionary sick pay will be a reasonable adjustment for disab...
Disability Discrimination: Expensive adjustments were not reasonable
...discrimination and disability related discrimination (under the old Disability Discrimination Act 1995) and each of the claims failed. The overall annual costs of the proposed adjustments were assess...
Taxing compensation payments
...discrimination and breach of contract for unpaid wages and unpaid notice pay. She entered into a COT3 agreement whereby Yellow Pages agreed to pay her £53,000. She received the payment, but net of t...
Belief Discrimination: Religious or spiritual beliefs and grounds for dismissal
...Discrimination: Religious or spiritual beliefs and grounds for dismissal Following the Court of Appeal’s widely reported decision in Ladele v London Borough of Islington in 2009 regarding religious or...
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...
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...
Disability Discrimination: Disability-Related and Direct
...Discrimination: Disability-Related and Direct In JP Morgan v Chweidan, the EAT confirmed that where a claim for disability-related discrimination fails, the same facts will not necessarily support a ...
Disability Discrimination: Reasonable Adjustments Guidance
Disability Discrimination: Reasonable Adjustments Guidance In Secretary of State for Work & Pensions v Wakefield, the EAT has confirmed the test, as set out in the case of Environment Agency v Ro...
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 ...
Sex Discrimination: Be Wary of Gossip
...Discrimination: Be Wary of Gossip In Nixon v Ross Coates Solicitors and another, the EAT found that a Tribunal had been wrong not to characterise gossip about an employee's pregnancy as discriminatio...