Discrimination
New Acas age discrimination guidance
Acas has published new guidance on age discrimination at work, which can be found here. According to Acas, age discrimination […]
Constructive knowledge of disability: when should employers reasonably know of an employee's disability?
Consultation on extending redundancy protection for new parents
Supreme Court considers "unfavourable" treatment in relation to disability discrimination
The Supreme Court has found that calculating an employee’s pension entitlement based on the employee’s part-time salary (where the employee […]
Disability discrimination: Dismissal of a shoplifting employee with a tendency to steal
The EAT, in Wood v. Durham County Council, confirmed that an employee’s “tendency to steal” was a manifestation of his […]
Government framework for voluntary reporting on disability, mental health and wellbeing: what is expected of employers?
Following the 2017 Thriving at Work Review, the government has developed a framework to support large employers with recording and […]
Is it safe to dismiss an employee who is receiving long-term disability benefits?
The EAT has dealt a blow to employers, confirming that the purpose of permanent health insurance and similar schemes would […]
Context is key in claims of harassment
In the recent case of Evans v. Xactly Corporation Limited the EAT considered whether calling an employee a “fat ginger […]
Government to propose mandatory ethnic pay gap reporting
As UK companies with more than 250 employees are now required to publish gender pay gap information, the government has turned its attention to the ethnicity pay gap.
NHS accused of ethnic discrimination following senior doctors' pay gap
Recent research published by the British Medical Journal suggests that senior doctors from black or minority ethnic ('BME') backgrounds earn approximately 4.9% (or £5,000) less in mean basic pay than their colleagues from a white ethnic background within the NHS.
Sex discrimination case flushed out of the Tribunal system with a £25,000 settlement
A female council worker has settled her sex discrimination claim for £25,000. She was instructed to go to a different office, ahead of an inspector's visit, to clean the kitchen and the toilets. She was told the toilets "needed a woman's touch" despite the fact that cleaning was not within her job description.