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- Date:
- 1 November 1996
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Burton v De Vere Hotels (18 September 1996), the EAT rules that an employer subjects an employee to the detriment of racial harassment if it causes or permits the racial harassment to occur in circumstances in which it can control whether it happens or not.
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- Date:
- 15 September 1996
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Diocese of Hallam Trustee v Connaughton, the EAT holds that an industrial tribunal had jurisdiction to hear a woman's complaint that she was being paid less than she would have been paid if she were a man doing equal work for the same employer.
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- Date:
- 1 September 1996
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Smith v Safeway plc (16 February 1996) EOR69A, the Court of Appeal holds that an appearance code which applies a standard of what is conventional applies an even-handed approach between men and women, and not one which is sex discriminatory.
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- Date:
- 15 July 1996
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In British Coal Corporation v Smith and others, the House of Lords holds that a woman claiming equal pay for equal work with men employed by the same employer at different establishments must show that those men, and employees in the same category as them at her own establishment, were or would be employed on broadly similar terms and conditions.
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- Date:
- 1 July 1996
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Smith v Safeway plc, the Court of Appeal holds that an industrial tribunal was entitled to decide that an employer's appearance code which required male employees' hair not to be below collar-length was not discriminatory.
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- Date:
- 1 July 1996
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In P v S and Cornwall County Council (30 April 1996) EOR68A, the European Court of Justice rules that discrimination on grounds of a gender reassignment contravenes the EC Equal Treatment Directive.
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- Date:
- 1 April 1996
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In JH Walker Ltd v Hussain and others the EAT holds that an employer "intentionally" indirectly discriminated against its Asian employees on the ground of race when, in accordance with a new policy that no holiday could be taken by employees during the three busiest months of the year, it required them to work on an important Muslim festival day, and disciplined them when they took the day off.
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- Date:
- 1 November 1995
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An employer directly discriminates against a pregnant woman contrary to the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 if, having recruited her for an indefinite period, it dismisses her because she will be temporarily unavailable for work at a time when she knows that she will be particularly needed, holds the House of Lords in Webb v EMO Air Cargo (UK) Ltd.
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- Date:
- 1 November 1995
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Waters v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (14 February 1995) EOR64B, the EAT rules that an employer could not be not liable for victimising an employee who alleged that she was sexually harassed by a work colleague, where the alleged harassment was not committed in the course of employment.
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- Date:
- 1 October 1995
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Waters v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the EAT holds that an industrial tribunal correctly rejected a complaint by a female employee that she was victimised by her employer because she alleged that she had been sexually assaulted by a male colleague.