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- Date:
- 1 January 1995
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Insitu Cleaning Co Ltd and another v Heads the EAT rejects an employer's argument that a single act cannot amount to sexual harassment until it has been done and rejected as "unwanted conduct".
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- Date:
- 1 January 1995
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Insitu Cleaning Co Ltd v Heads (1 September 1994) EOR59B, the EAT rules that a remark about a woman's breasts subjected her to a detriment and was unlawfully discriminatory. The EAT recommends that the employers adopt a sexual harassment procedure to prevent future incidents.
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- Date:
- 1 December 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Patel and Harewood v T & K Home Improvements Ltd and Johnson a Bedford industrial tribunal (Chair: C Tribe) awards aggravated damages against an employer who treated workplace notices which contained racially abusive material as a joke during tribunal proceedings and did not offer an apology to the complainants.
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- Date:
- 1 December 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Edwards v London Underground Ltd a London North industrial tribunal (Chair: R Upex) rules that new rostering arrangements introduced as part of a £10 million cost-saving plan indirectly discriminated against a female train operator, who was a single parent.
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- Date:
- 1 December 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Where an employee was told that a decision to transfer her was taken because she was a woman, the employers could not avoid a finding of sex discrimination by showing that the true reason for their decision was her unsatisfactory performance, rules the EAT in Allen v Cannon Hygiene Ltd.
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- Date:
- 1 December 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An industrial tribunal erred in finding that there had been direct racial discrimination in the absence of a finding that the reason for the treatment complained of was race-based, rules the Court of Appeal in Barclays Bank plc v Kapur and others (No.2).
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- Date:
- 1 December 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Rejecting a s. 41 defence, a Bury St Edmunds industrial tribunal (Chair: J Barnes) in York v Olan Mills Incorporated rules that the dismissal of a US citizen working for a US company in the UK when she refused to relocate back to the USA was unlawful race discrimination. Finding that the employee was also unfairly dismissed, the tribunal awarded compensation totalling almost £22,000.
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- Date:
- 1 December 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Rejecting the defence that being a woman was a "personal services" genuine occupational qualification for the post, a Nottingham industrial tribunal (Chair: D R Sneath) in Moult v Nottinghamshire County Council rules that it was unlawful to refuse an application from a man for a teaching post on women-only courses run by an all-women organisation.
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- Date:
- 1 December 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The right to a review of a decision of the General Medical Council is a proceeding "in the nature of an appeal" such as to preclude a complaint of race discrimination from being brought before an industrial tribunal, the Court of Appeal has ruled in Khan v General Medical Council.
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- Date:
- 1 December 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An employer has an obligation to provide an environment free of sexual harassment and a system whereby an employee can complain of behaviour which is unwanted, offensive and humiliating, says a Manchester industrial tribunal (Chair: J Corcoran) in Dillon v Outline Engraving Co Ltd.