Updated to include a reference to Higgs v Farmor’s School, where the Court of Appeal ruled that the dismissal of a school worker for social media posts was discriminatory.
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.
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.
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.