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In DLA Piper's case of the week, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) examined the dividing line between the innocent expression of an employee's religion at work and the inappropriate manifestation of religious beliefs in the workplace that justifies a misconduct charge.
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The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the fact that a claimant had worked under an illegal contract did not prevent her from claiming sex discrimination.
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The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employer's false explanation given for the withdrawal of a flexible working arrangement in evidence during a tribunal hearing reversed the burden of proof in a direct sex discrimination claim.
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The Court of Appeal has held that the Equality Act 2010 can be interpreted to cover post-employment victimisation, resolving the conflict created by two contradictory EAT decisions on this issue.
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This employment tribunal had the unusual task of deciding whether or not necrophobia, which is the fear of dead bodies or things associated with death, can be a disability under the Equality Act 2010.
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In Lockwood v Department for Work and Pensions and another [2013] IRLR 941 CA, the Court of Appeal held that less favourable treatment of a younger employee under the employer's redundancy scheme was objectively justified.
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Victoria Bell is managing associate and Gerri Hurst, Carly Mather and Andrew Nealey are associates and Eleanor Cittern is a trainee solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard LLP.
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The current wording of the Equality Act 2010 is sufficient to allow caste discrimination claims to be brought, found the employment tribunal in this non-binding first-instance case.
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- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has rejected a council's claim that it was required by an enactment to place a cap on the redundancy pay of an older worker who had reached civil service pension age.
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The Court of Appeal has held that, while an occupational health report can assist employers in deciding whether or not an employee is disabled, it is up to the employer itself to make the final judgment as to whether or not the employee is covered by disability discrimination legislation. Employers must not simply "rubber stamp" the medical adviser's opinion.