Employment law cases

All items: Race discrimination

  • EAT considers employer's liability for discriminatory acts of agency worker

    Date:
    29 March 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has considered employers' liability for discriminatory acts committed by agency workers. 

  • Case round-up

    Judith Harris, legal director, James Buckley, associate, Dinu Suntook, associate, at Addleshaw Goddard detail the latest rulings.

  • Discriminatory comments not directed at claimant were racial harassment

    A series of inappropriate comments about race by blue-collar workers, not necessarily directed at the claimant, were harassment, holds the employment tribunal.

  • Employer not liable for third-party racial harassment under RRA

    Date:
    24 January 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the employment tribunal was correct to reject a claim of race discrimination under the Race Relations Act 1976 (RRA) against an employer that failed to take action to prevent third-party harassment. 

  • £52,000 award after employer ignored female Polish worker's harassment complaints

    The industrial tribunal in Northern Ireland has awarded over £52,000 for sex and race discrimination after an employer ignored complaints from a Polish female worker that she was being subjected to serious sexual and racial harassment in the factory in which she worked.

  • Case round-up

    Niki Walker, managing associate at Addleshaw Goddard, details the latest rulings.

  • Case round-up

    Richard Ryan, associate, Helen Ward, associate, and Tori O'Neil, trainee solicitor, Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

  • Aziz v First Division Association (FDA)

    Date:
    1 April 2010

    The Court of Appeal has held that, where a claimant is alleging that separate incidents form one continuous act for the purposes of extending the normal time limit within which to bring a claim for racial discrimination, a relevant but not conclusive factor is whether the same individuals or different individuals were involved in the separate incidents.

  • Taylor v XLN Telecom Ltd and others

    Date:
    31 March 2010

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that employees, who successfully claim discrimination, are entitled to be compensated for any injury to health or injury to feelings caused by the act complained of, even if they were unaware that the act complained of was discriminatory.

  • Race discrimination: Polkey principle applies to compensation for dismissal

    Date:
    24 February 2010

    In Chagger v Abbey National plc and another [2009] EWCA Civ 1202 CA, the Court of Appeal confirmed that employment tribunals should ask a Polkey-type question when considering loss of earnings flowing from a discriminatory dismissal. The Court also ruled that, in appropriate cases, compensation for loss of earnings may include an element of "stigma" loss.

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