Equality, diversity and human rights

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• 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.

• Date:

  1 June 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  "Fucking waitresses" comment not discriminatory

  For a caterer to make a remark about "fucking waitresses" did not amount to sexual harassment, rules a Truro industrial tribunal (Chair: B E Walton) in Goodwin v Watkins.

• Date:

  1 June 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Worker abused because of Serbian origins

  An employee of Serbian origin who was subjected to hostile and abusive comments because of his origins, particularly after the start of the Bosnian war, and who found conditions so intolerable that he resigned, was unlawfully discriminated against, rules a Leeds industrial tribunal (Chair: E H J Record) in Milovanovic v Hebden Dyeing & Finishing Co Ltd.

• Date:

  1 June 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  "Outstanding candidate" rejected

  An Asian job applicant who was rejected despite being "the outstanding candidate" for a jobshare vacancy that could have been "tailor-made" for him, was unlawfully discriminated against, holds a London (North) industrial tribunal (Chair: P R K Menon) in Singh v London Borough of Ealing.

• Date:

  1 June 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Council's "blatant and bad case of discrimination"

  A local council unlawfully discriminated against an Asian job applicant when it rejected his application in favour of a white applicant, even though he was the highest-scoring candidate in the interview, rules a Manchester industrial tribunal (Chair: C T Grazin) in Umerji v Blackburn Borough Council.

• Date:

  1 June 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Woman sacked, man demoted, for same misconduct

  A woman who was dismissed for sexual misconduct while her male partner was demoted for the same misconduct, was unlawfully discriminated against, rules an Aberdeen industrial tribunal (Chair: D I Morgan) in Hume v Compass Services (UK) Ltd.