Employment law cases

Waters v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [1995] IRLR 531 EAT

Reports relating to this case:

  • No liability for victimisation

    Date:
    1 November 1995

    In Waters v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (14 February 1995) EOR64B, the EAT rules that an employer could not be not liable for victimising an employee who alleged that she was sexually harassed by a work colleague, where the alleged harassment was not committed in the course of employment.

  • Sex discrimination: Victimisation complaint requires employer to be vicariously liable

    Date:
    1 October 1995

    In Waters v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the EAT holds that an industrial tribunal correctly rejected a complaint by a female employee that she was victimised by her employer because she alleged that she had been sexually assaulted by a male colleague.