Employment Discrimination in UK Law
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Fees To Prevent Vexatious Employment Discrimination Suits?
The number of UK employment cases plunging? We asked about this earlier when we wrote that the UK Ministry of Justice released employment tribunal stats for the first quarter of 2014, and accordin...
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HR Two Minute Monthly: whistleblowing; religion or belief discrimination; employment status
Our October update considers recent developments in employment law, including cases on the whistleblowing public interest test, whether vegetarianism is a protected belief under discrimination law,...
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UK Cancer Patients Report Increase in Employment Discrimination And Harassment
Although the UK Equality Act, like the US ADA, prohibits disability discrimination, a Macmillan Cancer Support/YouGov online survey says that 37% of employees who undergo cancer treatment report di...
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Employment News: discrimination, strikes, Queen's speech
Coming clean – false reason for dismissal shifted burden of proof - In Base Childrenswear Ltd v Otshudi the Court of Appeal confirmed that giving a false reason for dismissal and persisting with...
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When can discrimination and employment claims be brought in Great Britain by those working abroad?
In this OnPoint we consider when discrimination and employment claims can be brought in Great Britain by those working overseas, with particular focus on the recent discrimination case of Ravisy v ...
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Mayer Brown Employment Law Podcast Episode 208: Discrimination Update – interim relief and gender critical beliefs
In episode 208 of our Employment podcast, Christopher Fisher is looking at two recent discrimination cases dealing with two important issues – will interim relief remedies be introduced for discrim...
- Positive Discrimination And Employment Law
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Employment News: age discrimination, job retention scheme
There has been a lengthy debate in the courts about the extent to which an employer can rely on cost considerations when seeking to justify a provision, criteria or practice that is potentially ind...
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Employment News: vicarious liability, age discrimination
Only joking – employer not vicariously liable for practical joke - In Chell v Tarmac Cement and Lime Ltd employees of Roltech Engineering were contracted to work alongside Tarmac employees at a ...
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UK HR Two Minute Monthly: disability discrimination; TUPE; employment status
As we move towards a ‘new normal’, our August 2020 update outlines some of the key non-COVID related employment law developments in the UK over the last month. It includes a TUPE-related ECJ judgme...
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