Equality, diversity and human rights

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• Date:

  1 September 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Lecturer victimised for bringing race claim

  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.

• Date:

  1 September 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Unsuccessful applicant not given feedback was victimised

  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.

• Date:

  1 August 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Equal pay: Competitive tendering did not excuse pay-cut

  In Ratcliffe and others v North Yorkshire County Council the House of Lords upholds a finding that women school catering assistants were entitled to receive the same rate of pay as their male comparators employed by the council on work rated as equivalent.

• Date:

  1 June 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  £35,000 for refusal to allow jobshare

  £35,000 compensation has been awarded by a Glasgow industrial tribunal (Chair: C M Milne) in Given v Scottish Power plc to a woman who resigned after being denied her request to jobshare.

• Date:

  1 June 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Full-time return only

  A jobsharer who was only permitted to return to work after maternity leave on a full-time basis was unlawfully discriminated against, rules a Glasgow industrial tribunal (Chair: S F R Patrick) in Watt v Ballantyne & Copeland.

• Date:

  1 June 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Buy-out not offered to staff on career break

  In Overton v Nuclear Electric plc a Bristol industrial tribunal (Chair: C G Toomer) finds that there was no indirect discrimination in an employer's failure to offer a payment for accepting new terms and conditions to employees on career breaks.

• Date:

  1 June 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Divorcee cannot claim marital status discrimination

  A divorced woman with children cannot complain under the Sex Discrimination Act that she has been discriminated against on grounds of her married status, a Bedford industrial tribunal (Chair: W B Carruthers) has ruled in Myers v (1) Slater and (2) Select Ticketing Systems.

• Date:

  1 June 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Ex-employee cannot complain

  In The Post Office v Adekeye (No.2) the EAT has ruled that an employee who has been summarily dismissed has no separate remedy against being discriminated against in the conduct of an internal appeal hearing.

• Date:

  1 June 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Immigration adjudicator not protected against race bias

  In Maxwell v Holmes (Lord Chancellor's Department) a London (North) industrial tribunal (Chair: G E Heggs) rules that it has no jurisdiction to hear an immigration adjudicator's complaint that the failure to renew his appointment was racial discrimination because he was the holder of a statutory office.

• Date:

  1 June 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  "Goddamn Yank" racial abuse, not banter

  The use of the phrase "Goddamn Yank" was racial abuse, rules a Manchester industrial tribunal (Chair: C Porter) in Ruizo v (1) Tesco Stores Ltd and (2) Lea, rejecting management's view that such a phrase was simply workplace banter.