Employment law cases

Dunn v Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management EAT/0531/10

Doubt was cast on this decision almost immediately by the EAT in Hawkins v Atex Group Ltd and others [2012] IRLR 807 EAT, the decision in which was handed down just after the ruling in this case.

Reports relating to this case:

Marriage discrimination: Less favourable treatment of employee on ground that she was married to a particular person amounted to discrimination

Date:

2 June 2012

In Dunn v Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management EAT/0531/10, the EAT held that less favourable treatment accorded to an employee on the ground that she was married to a particular person, rather than because of her marital status per se, amounted to unlawful discrimination on the ground of marriage.