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  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Harassment: "Stale" training no defence for racist jibes

    In Allay (UK) Ltd v Gehlen, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer's diversity training was not sufficient to amount to a "reasonable steps" defence in a claim of racial harassment committed by one of its employees.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Age discrimination: Jibes about Alzheimer's were harassment

    In Crompton v Eden Private Staff Ltd, an employment tribunal found that jibes made by employees to a 57-year-old colleague about Alzheimer's and "senior moments" constituted harassment under the Equality Act 2010.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Disciplinary investigations: "Inherently flawed" process made dismissal unfair

    In Adenusi v London Underground Ltd, an employment tribunal held that the employee's dismissal for sexual harassment was unfair because the employer did not carry out a reasonable investigation.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Employers not liable for third-party harassment, confirms EAT

    In Bessong v Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that the Equality Act 2010 cannot be interpreted to make an NHS trust vicariously liable for race discrimination for a patient's racially motivated attack on a mental-health nurse.

  • Date:
    25 January 2019
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: #MeToo - sexual harassment in the workplace

    Kelly Thomson, legal director at law firm RPC, gives us some top tips on the steps that employers can take to prevent sexual harassment. Kelly also gives her insight into how employers should deal with complaints of sexual harassment in the workplace and the key pitfalls that they should avoid.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Court of Appeal rules on employer liability for third-party harassment

    In Unite the Union v Nailard, the Court of Appeal held that the union was liable for the acts of its lay officials because they were acting as its agents, but that the union was not liable for failures by its employed union officials to prevent discrimination by third-party lay officials.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    EAT confirms importance of "context" in harassment cases

    In Bakkali v Greater Manchester Buses (South) Ltd t/a Stage Coach Manchester, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that asking a Muslim employee whether or not he supported IS did not amount to harassment because, given the context, the offending comment was not "related to" his religious belief or race.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Disability discrimination: No harassment claim possible where disability not established

    In Peninsula Business Service Ltd v Baker [2017] IRLR 394 EAT, the EAT held that, for a claim of harassment to succeed in a case involving the protected characteristic of disability, it is not enough for the alleged harassment to be "related to" disability in a general sense. The claimant must actually have a disability to bring the claim.

  • Type:
    Tasks

    Deal with a complaint of bullying or harassment

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Employer harassed and victimised employee after she underwent IVF treatment

    This case is a prime example of the problems that can occur in a workplace when a member of staff is undergoing IVF treatment in a bid to get pregnant.