Case report round-up: EAT guidance on "organised grouping of employees" on service provision change
XpertHR's latest case reports cover:
- EAT provides guidance on "organised grouping of employees" on service provision change In Argyll Coastal Services Ltd v Stirling and others EATS/0012/11, the EAT provided guidance on what constitutes an "organised grouping of employees" on a service provision change for TUPE purposes. (Personnel Today)
- Disability discrimination: Prohibitive cost of reasonable adjustments justified withdrawal of job offer In Cordell v Foreign and Commonwealth Office EAT/0016/11, the EAT held that a deaf employee was not discriminated against when her employer refused to bear the cost of providing "lip-speaking" assistance abroad, which would have cost about £250,000 a year. (Employment Review)
- Marriage discrimination: Dismissal because employee was in close personal relationship, which happened to be marriage, was not discrimination In Hawkins v Atex Group Ltd and others EAT/0302/11, the EAT held that the dismissal of an employee because she was in a close personal relationship with a particular person, which happened to take the form of marriage, did not amount to unlawful marriage discrimination. (Employment Review)
- Marriage discrimination: Less favourable treatment of employee on ground that she was married to a particular person amounted to discrimination 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. (Employment Review)
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