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- Date:
- 1 November 1998
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An employer could not reasonably have been expected to know, without being told by a job applicant suffering from photosensitive epilepsy, that the fluorescent lighting in the room in which she was interviewed might disadvantage her, holds the EAT in Ridout v T C Group.
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- Date:
- 15 October 1998
- Type:
- Employment law cases
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.
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- Date:
- 1 August 1998
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The EC Equal Treatment Directive precludes dismissal of a female worker at any time during her pregnancy for absences owing to pregnancy-related illness, rules the European Court of Justice in Brown v Rentokil Ltd.
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- Date:
- 1 August 1998
- Type:
- Employment law cases
A woman who was deprived of the right to an annual performance assessment - and, consequently, of the possibility of qualifying for promotion - because she was on maternity leave was discriminated against on grounds of sex within the meaning of the EC Equal Treatment Directive, holds the European Court of Justice in Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Vieillesse des Travailleurs Salariés v Thibault.
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- Date:
- 1 July 1998
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In London Underground Ltd v Edwards (No.2), the Court of Appeal holds that a female train driver who was unable to comply with new rostering arrangements imposed by her employer was indirectly discriminated against on the ground of her sex.
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- Date:
- 1 June 1998
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Morse v Wiltshire County Council, the EAT holds that an industrial tribunal must go through a number of sequential steps when dealing with an employer's alleged failure to comply with a duty to make reasonable adjustments in relation to the disabled person concerned.
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- Date:
- 1 June 1998
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Stubbs v Chief Constable Lincolnshire Police and others a Nottingham industrial tribunal (Chair: D R Sneath) holds Lincolnshire's chief constable liable for the unlawful acts of a male police officer who sexually harassed a female colleague in public houses after work.
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- Date:
- 15 May 1998
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Weathersfield Ltd t/a Van & Truck Rentals v Sargent, the EAT upholds an industrial tribunal's finding that a white employee suffered unlawful race discrimination when she was instructed by her employer to discriminate on racial grounds against black and Asian people, and consequently resigned because she was put in an intolerable position.
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- Date:
- 1 May 1998
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Marks & Spencer plc v Martins (19 December 1997) EOR79B, the Court of Appeal rules that it was an error for an industrial tribunal to find that the employer discriminated against an applicant on grounds of her race because its interviewers were guilty of "bias".
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- Date:
- 15 April 1998
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Bossa v Nordstress Ltd and another, the EAT holds that an industrial tribunal has jurisdiction to determine an Italian national's complaint that, because of his nationality, he was denied an interview in this country for a job based in Italy.