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- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has held that the system for the disclosure of individuals' criminal records to employers breaches the European Convention on Human Rights.
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- Employment law cases
The employment tribunal held that the employer discriminated against the claimant on the ground of age by making him redundant because he was close to retirement. The tribunal drew an inference of age bias against the claimant from workplace banter related to age, including colleagues nicknaming him "Yoda".
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- Employment law cases
In this unusual case, a job applicant who passed three interview stages, but had her conditional offer of employment withdrawn over poor psychometric testing results, unsuccessfully claimed age discrimination.
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- Employment law cases
The European Court of Human Rights has held that a Christian employee's right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion under art.9 of the European Convention on Human Rights was breached when the UK courts found that she was not discriminated against by British Airways' uniform policy, which prevented her from wearing visible items of jewellery at work.
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- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has refused to interfere with the employment tribunal decision that a children's home's business requirements outweighed the Christian claimant's desire not to work on Sundays.
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- Date:
- 18 December 2012
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- Employment law cases
The Supreme Court has upheld the Court of Appeal decision that an unpaid volunteer with no contract was not protected by the (now repealed) Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and that the Equal Treatment Framework Directive (2000/78/EC) does not cover voluntary activity.
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- Employment law cases
Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamentenios are partners and Melissa Powys-Rogrigues, Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 20 November 2012
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- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has held that the "band of reasonable responses" test for determining unfair dismissal claims does not need to be modified where an employee's rights under art.8 of the European Convention on Human Rights are engaged as a result of his or her dismissal.
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- Date:
- 8 November 2012
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- Employment law cases
The European Court of Human Rights has said that it was a breach of a BNP member's human rights for him not to have the opportunity to claim unfair dismissal on the basis that he was sacked for his "political opinion". He did not have the required one year's service in force at the time to bring a claim.
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- Employment law cases
This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers the burden of proof in discrimination cases.