A recent Tribunal case for a claim of indirect religious discrimination has decided that an employer can make decisions based on cost implications where otherwise their policy might be seen as discriminatory. In Cherfi v G4S Security Services Ltd a Muslim who was employed as a security guard regularly left the site he was stationed [...]
It is not just the UK where there is a battle to ensure employees on the company payroll are legally entitled to be working here. Whereas we have the Right to Work rules the US has an annual process of screening employers staff names and Social Security numbers against the Social Security database. There is [...]
In a September 2010 post we advised you that the Equality Act 2010 was to come into force on 1 October. Disability discrimination guidance has now been published to aid employers in understanding the definition of disability for the purposes of the discrimination legislation. Although the guidance does not impose legal obligations the Act makes [...]
UBS, the Swiss banking company, has reportedly issued a 44-page dress code to it’s staff. The code covers things such as: the colour and size of suits dietary tips the length of toenails appropriate underwear hair dyes advice against eating garlic and onions The code applies to client-facing staff and is part of UBS’s attempts [...]
British Airways (BA) worker Nadia Eweida, who was not allowed to wear a visible crucifix at work, is taking her discrimination case against the airline to the European Court of Human Rights. BA put Eweida on unpaid leave from her job as a check-in worker at Heathrow in 2006 after she had refused to conceal [...]
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published three draft codes of practice in relation to the Equality Act. Code of Practice on Equal Pay Code of Practice on Employment Code of Practice on Services, Public Funtions and Associations The new Equality Act is the most significant piece of equality legislation for many years and [...]
Statistics released by the Employment Tribunal Service show that lawyers were appointed to work on 161,900 tribunal cases in the year to March 2010, an 88% increase on 2008/09. The average amount awarded for unfair dismissal claims was £9,120, race discrimination £18,584, sec discrimination £19,499 and disability discrimination £52,087. Employment tribunals are expecting a further [...]
The Equality Act 2010 comes into force on 1 October 2010. As a result employees who think that their employer has discriminated against, harassed or victimised them, or believe that they have not received equal pay, can send a form to their employer to obtain further information about their treatment. The government has now published [...]
