discrimination

Jan

2024

Judicial Appointments Commission Faces Race Discrimination Complaint

Written by Carina Jheeta

An allegation of discrimination against a public body is a serious matter requiring close analysis in a public forum. An Employment Tribunal (ET) made that point in permitting a claim against the Judicial Appointments Commission and one of its...

Oct

2023

Disability Discrimination – Corner Shops Owe the Same Duties as Multinationals

Written by Carina Jheeta

Small businesses are not blessed with human resource departments and can find it hard to accommodate disabled members of staff who need to take time off work. However, as an Employment Tribunal (ET) ruling showed, when it comes to catering for their...

Mar

2023

Pressurised Delivery Driver Succeeds in Disability Discrimination Claim

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

The pressure under which the UK's legion of delivery drivers work is well known as online shopping habits increase. As an Employment Tribunal (ET) ruling showed, however, workers' disabilities must never be ignored when assigning them a reasonable...

Mar

2023

College Student Required to Work Late Succeeds in Age Discrimination Claim

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

Mention age discrimination and in the first instance it brings to mind older employees being treated less favourably than their younger colleagues. However, as a case concerning a teenage college student showed, young people enjoy the same legal...

Jan

2023

Length of Service Redundancy Criteria Ageist, ET Rules

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

A redundancy process that includes length of service or seniority as a selection criterion is always likely to be vulnerable to challenge on ageism grounds. In one case, an international travel operator fell into precisely that trap (Irving v TUI...

Aug

2022

Disability Discrimination – ET's Reasons for Dismissing Claim 'Inadequate'

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

One of the most fundamental principles of justice is that unsuccessful litigants must be given an adequate explanation of the reasons why they have lost. In the context of a disability discrimination claim, an Employment Tribunal (ET) was found to...

Jul

2022

Capability – Justifying the Dismissal of a Disabled Employee is Never Easy

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

Justifying the dismissal of a disabled employee on capability grounds is always likely to be an uphill struggle. That was certainly so in the case of an HGV driver who was sacked whilst in the midst of a long and painful recovery from major back...

Jun

2022

Badly Mistreated Immigrant Worker Succeeds in ET Claim

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

It is a sad fact that immigrant workers with little or no grasp of English are vulnerable to shocking mistreatment by a minority of employers. As an Employment Tribunal (ET) ruling showed, however, perpetrators of such abuse can expect crushing...

Jun

2022

Pregnancy Discrimination – Employers' Claims of Ignorance

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

Employers accused of discrimination are often heard to claim that they had no inkling that the employee concerned had a protected characteristic. However, the case of a pregnant woman who was sacked whilst in the throes of morning sickness showed...

Nov

2021

Would Your Workplace Disciplinary Procedures Withstand ET Scrutiny?

Written by Sydney Mitchell

Workplace disciplinary hearings should always be conducted on the assumption that the fairness of the procedure followed is in future likely to be rigorously tested by an Employment Tribunal (ET). A case on point concerned an adult education worker...

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Judicial Appointments Commission Faces Race Discrimination Complaint

Disability Discrimination – Corner Shops Owe the Same Duties as Multinationals

Pressurised Delivery Driver Succeeds in Disability Discrimination Claim

College Student Required to Work Late Succeeds in Age Discrimination Claim

Length of Service Redundancy Criteria Ageist, ET Rules

Disability Discrimination – ET's Reasons for Dismissing Claim 'Inadequate'

Capability – Justifying the Dismissal of a Disabled Employee is Never Easy

Badly Mistreated Immigrant Worker Succeeds in ET Claim

Pregnancy Discrimination – Employers' Claims of Ignorance

Would Your Workplace Disciplinary Procedures Withstand ET Scrutiny?

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