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- Date:
- 1 September 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Bishop v The Cooper Group plc a London South industrial tribunal (Chair: E R Donnelly), hearing "alarm bells" when told that the successful male candidates for apprenticeships in a wholly male environment would "fit in", rules that a teenage girl was turned down because of her sex.
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- Date:
- 1 September 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Jewess v JSB Electrical plc, a Manchester industrial tribunal (Chair: E T Connolly) rules that a woman who was dismissed because her relationship with a former male employee who had left to work for a competitor was still continuing and her employer believed that information about the business would be passed to the competitor was not unlawful discrimination.
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- Date:
- 1 September 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
A local councillor who tabled a motion calling for Asian employees in "s. 11 posts" to be replaced by "black officers of African origin" acted unlawfully, rules a London North industrial tribunal (Chair: M H Don) in Commission for Racial Equality v Nyaga.
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- Date:
- 1 September 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Asda Stores Ltd was not liable for the racially "offensive and derogatory remark" made by one of its store supervisors to a black contract cleaner, rules a Birmingham industrial tribunal (Chair: B L Owen) in Taylor v Asda Stores Ltd.
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- Date:
- 1 September 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
A teenage girl who was turned down for an apprenticeship as a garage mechanic is awarded compensation of £24,389, including £3,500 for injury to feelings, by a London South industrial tribunal (Chair: E R Donnelly) in Bishop v The Cooper Group plc.
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- Date:
- 1 September 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Compensation of £10,000 has been awarded by a Leeds industrial tribunal (Chair: P A Morris) in Miss A and Miss B v R1 and R2 to each of two employees in respect of injury to feelings resulting from sexual harassment.
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- Date:
- 1 September 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Laher v London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham the EAT has set aside the decision of an industrial tribunal dismissing a race discrimination complaint on grounds that there was bias shown by the tribunal chair against the applicant.
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- Date:
- 1 September 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Kamal v Wakefield Health Authority a Leeds industrial tribunal (Chair: J Prophet) has ruled that until new legislation has been enacted, there is no time limits on claims brought under Article 119 of the EC Treaty based on the decision of the House of Lords that the hours-per-week qualifying thresholds under the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act are incompatible with EC law.
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- Date:
- 1 September 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The time limit for bringing a complaint against a public sector employer in respect of discriminatory retirement did not begin to run until the date the Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay (Remedies) Regulations 1993 came into force, rules a Southampton industrial tribunal (Chair: I T Soulsby) in Wild v Portsmouth & SE Hants Health Authority.
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- Date:
- 1 September 1994
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Webb v EMO Air Cargo (UK) Ltd (14 July 1994) EOR57A, the European Court of Justice rules that it is contrary to the Equal Treatment Directive to dismiss a woman employed for an unlimited term who, shortly after her recruitment is found to be pregnant, notwithstanding that she was recruited initially to replace another employee during the latter's maternity leave.