Equality, diversity and human rights

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  Employment law cases

  Human rights: Covert CCTV surveillance of Spanish shop workers violated right to privacy

  In López Ribalda and others v Spain, the European Court of Human Rights held that Spanish shop workers' right to privacy was violated when a supermarket installed hidden cameras without their knowledge to monitor employee thefts.

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  Employment law cases

  Human rights: CCTV surveillance in classes violated lecturers' right to privacy

  In Antovic and another v Montenegro, the European Court of Human Rights held that overt camera surveillance in a university's lecture halls violated professors' right to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights.

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  Employment law cases

  £1,000 award for disabled shop worker over delay in providing £3 lift key

  In Mitchell v Marks and Spencer plc, the employment tribunal awarded £1,000 to a disabled shop worker following a delay in providing him with a lift key to allow him to reach the toilets more easily.

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  Employment law cases

  Human rights: Dismissed employee's right to private life inadequately protected by the courts hearing his dismissal challenge

  In Barbulescu v Romania [2017] IRLR 1032 ECHR, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights held that the Romanian courts failed to afford adequate protection to the art.8 rights of an employee who sought to challenge his dismissal following a monitoring exercise by his employer.

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  Employment law cases

  Disability discrimination: Requirement for job applicant with Asperger's syndrome to complete multiple choice test was discriminatory

  In Government Legal Service v Brookes [2017] IRLR 780 EAT, the EAT held that an applicant for a solicitors' training scheme who has Asperger's syndrome suffered unlawful disability discrimination when she was required to sit a test in a multiple choice format in the recruitment process.

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  Employment law cases

  Direct race discrimination: Withdrawal of job offer based on "tainted" psychological assessment

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the employer subjected the claimant to direct race discrimination. The employer withdrew its offer to the claimant of a posting abroad because of a psychological assessment that warned the claimant could suffer stress as a result of racial discrimination.

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  Employment law cases

  Court of Appeal reaffirms correct approach to proving direct discrimination

  The Court of Appeal has held that the rules on the burden of proof in discrimination claims under the Equality Act 2010 do not differ from the rules under the previous discrimination legislation, and that the initial burden remains on the claimant.

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  Employment law cases

  Supreme Court: employment tribunal has jurisdiction to hear discrimination claim against GMC

  The Supreme Court has considered whether or not an employment tribunal has jurisdiction to hear a complaint by a doctor against the General Medical Council for discrimination.

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  Employment law cases

  Claimant's colour blindness not a disability, decides tribunal

  An employment tribunal has held that a claimant's red-green colour blindness is not a disability.

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  Employment law cases

  Police officers can bring discrimination claims over misconduct panel decisions

  The Supreme Court has held that EU law requires police officers to be able to bring discrimination claims in employment tribunals in respect of dismissals that are the result of police misconduct panel proceedings.