Case report round-up: Higher severance payments for older employees were justified

The latest HR & Compliance Centre case reports cover:

Religion or belief discrimination: Context of remark is important in assessing whether or not it constituted harassment In Heafield v Times Newspaper Ltd EAT/1305/12, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that there was no harassment based on religion or belief when an employee took offence at a colleague's comment using an expletive when referring to the Pope. In the context in which the remark was made, it could not reasonably be viewed as sufficiently offensive to amount to harassment.
Age discrimination: Higher severance payments for older employees were justified In Lockwood v Department for Work and Pensions and another EAT/0094/12, the EAT held that a voluntary redundancy scheme providing higher severance payments to older workers did not amount to unlawful direct age discrimination because the differential treatment was a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim of a public interest nature.

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