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- Employment law guide
In the case of Good Law Project Limited v EHRC the High Court confirmed that the EHRC's interim guidance concerning single-sex spaces and the definition of "sex" is not unlawful, while in Hutchinson v County Durham, an employment tribunal found that allowing a trans woman to use female changing rooms in circumstances when other staff objected amounted to harassment and indirect sex discrimination.
It is important for HR to recognise that matters relating to gender identity and the use of single-sex facilities are sensitive. These situations must be managed thoughtfully to prevent discrimination and harassment claims.
See: Supporting non-binary and transgender employees: Supporting an employee who is transitioning
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- Employment law guide
Updated to include a reference to the protection from harassment measures in the Employment Rights Bill, published on 10 October 2024.
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- Employment law cases
The Supreme Court has overturned the Court of Appeal's decision and held that civil partners and same-sex spouses are entitled to pension benefits accrued before the introduction of civil partnerships on 5 December 2005.
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- Employment law cases
We round up three recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) judgments about discrimination. The ECJ has recently considered: temporary incapacity caused by a workplace accident in Barcelona; the recruitment age limit for Basque police officers; and survivors' pensions for same-sex partners in Ireland.
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- Date:
- 2 June 2012
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- Employment law cases
In Hawkins v Atex Group Ltd and others EAT/0302/11, the EAT held that the dismissal of an employee because she was in a close personal relationship with a particular person, which happened to take the form of marriage, did not amount to unlawful marriage discrimination.
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- Date:
- 2 June 2012
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- Employment law cases
In Dunn v Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management EAT/0531/10, the EAT held that less favourable treatment accorded to an employee on the ground that she was married to a particular person, rather than because of her marital status per se, amounted to unlawful discrimination on the ground of marriage.
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- Employment law cases
Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamatenios are partners and Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.
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- FAQs
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- FAQs
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- Date:
- 1 June 1995
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- Employment law cases
A divorced woman with children cannot complain under the Sex Discrimination Act that she has been discriminated against on grounds of her married status, a Bedford industrial tribunal (Chair: W B Carruthers) has ruled in Myers v (1) Slater and (2) Select Ticketing Systems.