Managing employees/workers
This employment tribunal held that an employer properly handled a new mother's rejected flexible working request to work from home primarily in the evenings.
This employment tribunal held that it was not indirect sex discrimination for a small investment banking firm to require a single-parent mother to work full time as an executive secretary.
Chris Cook is partner and head of employment and Keely Rushmore is senior associate at SA Law. They round up the latest rulings.
Consultant editor Darren Newman considers a recent indirect sex discrimination case that highlights the problems that an employer can face when it has to balance the working-pattern requests of individual employees against the needs of the workforce as a whole, and its need to provide an effective service.
Updated to include information on Phoenix House Ltd v Stockman, where the EAT considered whether or not the covert recording of a confidential meeting was a breach of the implied term of trust and confidence.
David Malamatenios is partner at Colman Coyle Solicitors. He rounds up the latest rulings.
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