Race discrimination

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• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  David Malamatenios and Georgina Kyriacou are partners, and Krishna Santra, Colin Makin and Sandra Martins are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Male employee was sexually harassed by a male colleague's "how's it hanging?" greeting

  The employment tribunal in this case took the unusual step of upholding complaints of direct sex discrimination and sexual harassment in relation to events that had occurred up to three years out of time.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Chris McAvoy, Sarah Wade, David Rintoul, Helen Corbett and Kristin Aarvik are associate solicitors at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Race discrimination: former NHS worker awarded nearly £1m

  In this case, the employment tribunal awarded an NHS worker, who was dismissed from his senior position in the NHS, close to £1m for race discrimination, despite the tribunal's refusal to increase the award for future loss of earnings on the basis of the worker's argument that he might have been promoted before he retired.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Race and sex discrimination: former NHS doctor with post-traumatic stress disorder awarded almost £4.5m

  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.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  "Borat" nickname for Polish employee was discrimination

  This is a classic example of an ill-advised workplace nickname resulting in a successful discrimination claim.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Claire Benson is managing associate and Helen Corbett, Sinead Jones, Helen Ward and Tori O'Neil are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Indian telesales employee instructed to adopt anglicised alias at work

  In this case, an Indian employee alleged that his employer had instructed him to adopt an anglicised alias at work.

• Date:

  7 June 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  "Indivisible damage" to claimant must be compensated on joint and several liability basis

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, where there are multiple respondents and particular loss cannot be attributed to one party, employment tribunals must award compensation on a joint and several liability basis, meaning that the claimant can claim the entire amount from any respondent. 

• Date:

  16 May 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employment tribunal wrong to assess compensation on basis of rest of claimant's working life

  The Court of Appeal has held that the employment tribunal was wrong to assess compensation for a banker who was unfairly dismissed and suffered race discrimination on the basis that he would be unlikely to find an equivalent job again.