Employment law cases

All items: Victimisation

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    Sally Logan, associate at Addleshaw Goddard, brings you a comprehensive update on the latest decisions that could affect your organisation, and provides advice on what to do about them.

  • Race discrimination: Conscious motivation is not a prerequisite for victimisation

    Date:
    15 August 1999

    It was a sufficient basis for a claim of victimisation for an unsuccessful job applicant to show that those who had interviewed him were subconsciously influenced by their knowledge of the fact that he had previously done a protected act, holds the House of Lords in Nagarajan v London Regional Transport.

  • Sex discrimination: Ex-employees must have legal remedy against victimisation

    Date:
    15 October 1998

    The EC Equal Treatment Directive requires member states to provide judicial protection for those whose former employers react to their bringing claims of sex discrimination against them during their employment by refusing their requests for a reference, rules the European Court of Justice in Coote v Granada Hospitality Ltd.

  • Lecturer victimised for bringing race claim

    Date:
    1 September 1995

    A university lecturer was unlawfully victimised for bringing race discrimination proceedings against his employer when his application for promotion was unfairly considered and when he was placed last on a list of people entitled to performance-related pay so that he stood little or no chance of receiving such pay, rules a London South industrial tribunal (Chair: G H K Meeran) in Majid v London Guildhall University.

  • Unsuccessful applicant not given feedback was victimised

    Date:
    1 September 1995

    An employee who had made a race discrimination complaint was later unlawfully victimised when he was not, in accordance with normal practice, informed why his application for promotion had been unsuccessful, rules a Manchester industrial tribunal (Chair: C T Grazin) in Shah v Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council.

  • Victimised for accusing MD of being a racist

    Date:
    1 March 1995

    A black employee was unlawfully victimised when he was barred from his company's bonus scheme after he accused his managing director of being a racist, rules a London (North) industrial tribunal (Chair: P R K Menon) in Leacock v Zeller & Sons plc.

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