Sex discrimination

New and updated

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  Employment law guide

  Discrimination in recruitment and selection

  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

  Sexual harassment liability: Employment tribunal round-up

  We look at three recent employment tribunal decisions where the tribunal found that the employee had been subjected to sexual harassment.

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  Employment law cases

  Sexual harassment compensation: Employment tribunal round-up

  We look at three employment law cases where the employment tribunal upheld the employee's sexual harassment claim and awarded compensation.

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  Employment law cases

  Compensation awards: Employment tribunal round-up

  We look at four employment law cases where the employee was successful and the tribunal ordered the employer to pay substantial compensation in three of them.

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  Employment law cases

  High discrimination awards: Employment tribunal round-up

  We look at four discrimination cases where an employment tribunal has ordered the employer to pay a large compensation award.

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  Employment law cases

  Sexual harassment: Employment tribunal round-up

  We look at three recent employment tribunal decisions where the employee succeeded in their sexual harassment claim.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Discrimination law: The protected characteristics

  Updated to include a reference to Thomas v Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, in which the EAT considered if a belief in English nationalism amounted to a protected philosophical belief.

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  Employment law cases

  Sex discrimination: Inadequate provision of toilet facilities

  In Earl Shilton Town Council v Miller, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer's provision of inadequate toilet facilities for women was direct sex discrimination.

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  Employment law cases

  Coronavirus case law round up: Discrimination and whistleblowing

  We look at three cases dealing with issues around discrimination and whistleblowing, arising from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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  Employment law cases

  Menstruation: Failure to provide sanitary waste disposal bin in staff toilet was sex discrimination

  In Reilly v RT Management Bridgeton Ltd, an employment tribunal held that a line manager's failure to address an employee's request to have a sanitary waste disposal bin placed in the staff toilet because she was "the only female of menstruating age who used the toilet" constituted sex discrimination.