Employment law cases

Weathersfield Ltd t/a Van & Truck Rentals v Sargent [1998] IRLR 14 EAT

Reports relating to this case:

  • Race discrimination: Discriminatory instruction was less favourable treatment

    Date:
    15 May 1998

    In Weathersfield Ltd t/a Van & Truck Rentals v Sargent, the EAT upholds an industrial tribunal's finding that a white employee suffered unlawful race discrimination when she was instructed by her employer to discriminate on racial grounds against black and Asian people, and consequently resigned because she was put in an intolerable position.