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The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that where multiple grievances are made in good faith, albeit are ill founded, they are protected acts for which the employer cannot subject the employee to a detriment.
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In Heafield v Times Newspaper Ltd EAT/1305/12, the EAT held that there was no harassment based on religion or belief when an employee took offence at a colleague's comment using an expletive when referring to the Pope. In the context in which the remark was made, it could not reasonably be viewed as sufficiently offensive to amount to harassment.
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In this age discrimination case brought by a young worker, the employment tribunal held that a manager's use of the words "teenager" and "kid" to describe the claimant amounted to harassment.
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In this age discrimination case, the employment tribunal found that staff in a school conspired to force out a highly paid older teacher as a way of cutting costs.
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Amanda Steadman is a professional support lawyer, and Joe Beeston, Laura Garner, Helen Samuel and Dinu Suntook are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.
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In the final chapter of this long-running case on the justification of a compulsory retirement age for partners in a law firm, the employment tribunal applied Supreme Court guidance and concluded that a requirement for partners to step down at 65 was justified.
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In this week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, the European Court of Justice held that keeping differences in pay in the "interests of good industrial relations" cannot, by itself, be a sufficient justification, although can be one factor taken into account if there are other justifications.
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In this well-publicised race discrimination case, a job applicant engineered a tribunal claim by submitting two applications for a job with Virgin Atlantic: the first using his real African name and stating that he is a black African; the second using a fake British-sounding name and stating his ethnicity as white British.
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This employment tribunal held that a Christian telesales agent's belief that potential customers should not be deceived to obtain sales could be protected under the Equality Act 2010. However, the claimant lost his case because he did not present sufficient evidence that his former employer had required him to lie to potential customers.