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- Date:
- 20 December 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Cherfi v G4S Security Services Ltd EAT/0379/10, the EAT held that an employer's refusal for business reasons to allow a Muslim security guard to leave the workplace to attend a mosque on Fridays was proportionate and justified. Accordingly, it did not amount to unlawful indirect religious discrimination.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
This employment tribunal has awarded a former NHS doctor one of the largest ever discrimination payouts after she was subjected to a sustained campaign of sex and race discrimination. The tribunal found the NHS trust and three senior managers, one of whom was the HR director, jointly and severally liable for compensation.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this case, the tribunal had to consider whether or not a Jehovah's Witness was discriminated against on the ground of his religion when he was dismissed after refusing to work on Sundays.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
The employment tribunal in this case found that it was not age discrimination for the civil service to place limits on the amount that it would pay under a voluntary "early-release scheme" designed to encourage turnover in the workforce.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
Tori O'Neil, Tessa Harland, Sarah Wade and Ed Gregory are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 28 November 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Session has held that a group of administrative and clerical female workers making equal pay claims against a local authority were on "common terms and conditions" with a group of male manual workers who were based in different locations.
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- Date:
- 16 November 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has held that there could be no remedy for part-time female workers who were prevented from joining an occupational pension scheme during particular periods because they would not have chosen to join the pension scheme even if they had been eligible to do so.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
A pub manager in his first supervisory role left to his own devices made a series of errors in dismissing a disabled older worker, in a case with so many mistakes by management that it could be used to train line managers on employment issues.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In a pre-hearing review, an employment judge has held that an ex-serviceman's stated belief that "we should pay our respects to those who have given their lives for us by wearing a poppy from All Souls' Day on 2 November to Remembrance Sunday" is not a philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
The employer in this case got a review of its flexible working arrangements wrong by assuming that women's applications to retain their flexible working arrangements should be favoured over men's applications.