Sexism ruling prompts redundancy rethink

Employers have been urged to look closely at their redundancy criteria after a tribunal ruled that law firm Eversheds unfairly dismissed a male employee because it feared a discrimination claim if it axed a pregnant colleague.

John de Belin won £123,000 in damages after successfully claiming sex discrimination and being "deprived of his livelihood" following the law firm's decision to make him redundant.