Cases within Z

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  Zafar v Glasgow City Council [1998] IRLR 36 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Reasonableness irrelevant to less favourable treatment

    Date:

    1 February 1998

    The concept of direct discrimination under the Race Relations Act requires it to be shown that the claimant has been treated by the person against whom the discrimination is alleged less favourably than that person treats or would have treated another, the House of Lords rules in Zafar v Glasgow City Council.

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  Zaiwalla & Co and another v Walia [2002] IRLR 697 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Aggravated damages: Aggravated damages award based on employer's conduct of defence

    Date:

    9 December 2002

    In Zaiwalla & Co and another v Walia the EAT holds that an employment tribunal which upheld an employee's complaint of sex discrimination was entitled to award aggravated damages of £7,500 to reflect the fact that the employer conducted its defence of the tribunal proceedings in a manner deliberately designed to be intimidatory and threatening, and to cause the maximum distress to the employee.

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  Zentralbetriebsrat der Landeskrankenhäuser Tirols v Land Tirol C-486/08 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • EU: ECJ rules on holiday rights after parental leave

    Date:

    20 May 2010

    The European Court of Justice ruled in April 2010 that workers who take parental leave cannot, after the leave, be deprived of their annual leave entitlement accumulated during the year preceding the birth of their child. The judgment also deals with the rights of part-time and fixed-term workers.