Race discrimination

New and updated

• Date:

  1 September 1994

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Pushtuns not a racial group

  In Khayum v Pakistan Muslim Centre a Sheffield industrial tribunal (Chair: J M Q Hepworth) rules that Pushtuns are not a "racial group" as defined by the Race Relations Act.

• Date:

  1 September 1994

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  CRE criticised

  Rejecting claims that a private hire company had unlawfully discriminated against two Asian applicants, a Leeds industrial tribunal (Chair: J Prophet) in Akbar and Ahmed v Metro Private Hire (Keighley) Ltd, expresses concern over the way the Commission for Racial Equality went about securing evidence of discrimination.

• Date:

  1 September 1994

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  "Thick Paddy" insults unlawful

  An Irishman who was subjected to repeated anti-Irish remarks by his supervisor and other colleagues which led to him seeking medical attention for stress, and who was then dismissed because he did not "fit in", was unlawfully discriminated against, rules a Nottingham industrial tribunal (Chair: J M Coulson) in McAuley v Auto Alloys Foundry Ltd and Taylor.

• Date:

  1 September 1994

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Remark racially abusive

  A black railway worker who was called a "black cunt" by an employee of a subcontractor during an incident was discriminated against on grounds of race, a London South industrial tribunal (Chair: E R Donnelly) in Bellinfantie v British Rail rules.

• Date:

  1 September 1994

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Race bias against equality job applicant

  A Pakistani applicant who unsuccessfully applied for the post of senior equality adviser was discriminated against on the grounds of race, rules a Nottingham industrial tribunal majority (Chair: J H Bellis) in Ayub v Nottinghamshire County Council.

• Date:

  1 September 1994

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Motion for Asians to be replaced by "Africans"

  A local councillor who tabled a motion calling for Asian employees in "s. 11 posts" to be replaced by "black officers of African origin" acted unlawfully, rules a London North industrial tribunal (Chair: M H Don) in Commission for Racial Equality v Nyaga.

• Date:

  1 September 1994

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  "Sound race policy" at Asda

  Asda Stores Ltd was not liable for the racially "offensive and derogatory remark" made by one of its store supervisors to a black contract cleaner, rules a Birmingham industrial tribunal (Chair: B L Owen) in Taylor v Asda Stores Ltd.

• Date:

  1 September 1994

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Bias shown by tribunal chair

  In Laher v London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham the EAT has set aside the decision of an industrial tribunal dismissing a race discrimination complaint on grounds that there was bias shown by the tribunal chair against the applicant.

• Date:

  1 June 1994

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Complaints of racist abuse ignored

  A black college lecturer whose complaints of racial abuse over an eight-year period were continually disbelieved by college authorities was unlawfully discriminated against on grounds of race, rules an Ashford industrial tribunal (Chair: I S Lamb) in Jenkins v Burney and others.

• Date:

  1 June 1994

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Inconsistent treatment due to race bias

  A hospital orderly who was immediately suspended pending an investigation following an incident, when a nurse who was involved in an equally serious incident was simply counselled, suffered a detriment and was unlawfully discriminated against on grounds of race, holds a Leeds industrial tribunal (Chair: J R W Worrall) in Dan v United Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust Ltd.