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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this case, the industrial tribunal in Northern Ireland ordered a care worker's former employer to pay her £9,500 for sex discrimination after it failed to provide her with a reference.
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- Date:
- 15 March 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has held that the tribunal was correct to decide that it had jurisdiction to hear claims of unfair dismissal and sex discrimination by two British employees who worked for the Ministry of Defence in Belgium and the Netherlands.
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- Date:
- 18 January 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Shackletons Garden Centre Ltd v Lowe EAT/0161/10, the EAT held that an employment tribunal had insufficient evidence for its finding that an employee returning from maternity leave suffered indirect sex discrimination when her employer required her to work weekend shifts on the same basis as the other sales staff.
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- Date:
- 15 December 2010
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In St Andrews Catholic Primary School and others v Blundell EAT/0330/09, the EAT held that the appropriate award of compensation for injury to a victimised employee's feelings was £14,000, not £22,000, reflecting that it was a serious case falling within the middle Vento band. The tribunal's award of £5,000 in aggravated damages was, however, appropriate.
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- Date:
- 24 November 2010
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Johal v Equality and Human Rights Commission EAT/0541/09, the EAT held that the employer's failure to inform an employee on maternity leave of a job vacancy was not an act of sex discrimination.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
Annabel Mackay, managing associate at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers sex and pregnancy discrimination and constructive dismissal.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 9 August 2010
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, on the facts of the case, an employer did not commit sex discrimination against an employee on maternity leave when an administrative error meant that she was not informed of a job vacancy.