This month’s current affairs feature concerns race discrimination but is Brexit free (hooray) however it is a tangential effect of some of Donald Trump’s spouting (groans). If you cast your minds back to late September and early October, you may remember there was quite the furore about the BBC’s treatment of BBC Breakfast journalist, Naga […]
Hello and welcome back to your weekly case law update. Given we are forecasted showers all weekend it seems apt to start the weekend with something dry and some EAT judgments certainly fall into that category! Last week’s update had two cases for you, one concerning religion/belief discrimination and another about Tribunal Awards. This week […]
Good morning and welcome back to your weekly case law update. Last week we looked at Employment Status. This week we delve into a case involving racial discrimination, unfair dismissal and failure to provide statement of employment particulars. The questions this week are: Does the phrase “fuck off back to Poland” amount to race discrimination? […]
Greetings and welcome back to your weekly case law update. Last week was our monthly employment law update with features on ET statistics, equal pay and extension of pregnancy/maternity discrimination rights. Meanwhile, our previous case law update concerned negligence when handling an employee’s company property. In this week’s case law update we focus on race […]
Football is an issue that has not had many employment law updates recently. However, our next item of current news examines discrimination in the media and the prevalence of racism in today’s society and how employers should react. Anyone who has ever had the misfortune of glancing down the Mail’s sidebar of shame might have […]
Hello and welcome back to you weekly case law update. Last week, we had our monthly employment law update with features on the Boris Johnson burqa scandal, joint employment and working time. Before that, our previous case law update concerned agency workers. This week we have two cases for you, one on victimisation and another […]
It’s the final Friday of the month! Summer is slowly fading into autumn, rain has fallen (regrettably not the kind that is blessed down in Africa) and we have another employment law update for you. Last month’s newsletter had features on the sunny weather (which was supposed to last until October!), the Jo Swinson paring […]
In January we listed some of the things to expect from Employment Law in 2018. One of those things was the possibility of caste becoming a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010. Caste is a type of social stratification where people are defined by their perceived hereditary class. Caste has taken various forms all […]
This case is about race discrimination and religious discrimination. This case particularly relates to direct discrimination and harassment. For any of the protected characteristics, direct discrimination is defined in Section 13 of the Equality Act 2010 as a person discriminates against another if, because of a protected characteristic, a person is treated less favourably than […]
Greetings, it’s the last Friday of the month which means it is time for a round-up of all the employment law news. March’s update had features on gender pay gap reporting, NMW offenders and changes to the taxing of settlement agreements, last week’s case law update had cases on shared parental leave and early conciliation. […]
This month’s issue has been heavy, unfortunately the news this month is a tad political and contains grubby issues like smearing and institutionalised racism. However, to lighten the mood we have something absurd and silly, whether it be getting caught on tape having sex at work or being sacked for peeing in a bottle, every […]
Hello, another Friday is upon us which means it is time for another dose of employment law. After last week’s employment law update we are back to our case law update. This week’s case concerns pensions and discrimination. We also have a new feature for you at the end of today’s update. (Cue dramatic music […]
Hello and welcome back to penultimate update of the year (gasp/cheers/sobs). Last week we looked at race discrimination and constructive dismissal. This week we are again looking at race discrimination but this time it is linked to right to work checks. Olatinwo v QualityCourse Ltd T/A Transline Group When checking whether an applicant […]
Good morning and welcome back to your weekly case law update. Last week we had our monthly update for November, it had features on the ECJ’s decision in the Sash Windows case and new statutory pay rates. Our previous case law update was the EAT decision in the Uber case. Since we last covered the […]
