Tribunal update: Employee discriminated against because of wife's disability

We provide a summary and the full transcript of two interesting employment tribunal rulings involving:

• an employee who was discriminated against because of his wife's disability; and
• an employee who claimed discrimination on the basis that his colleagues sometimes conversed in Punjabi or Urdu. 

Would you like to read case reports on a particular area of employment law? If so, please email employment law editor John Read. 

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In the employment tribunals Access the XpertHR archive of tribunal decisions, as well as longer round-ups of cases on a particular topic. 

Employment tribunal decisions in the headlines 20.08.12 to 26.08.12 A round-up of links to news items on employment tribunal rulings in the week beginning 20 August 2012, including a tribunal making a costs order against a journalist who brought age and religion or belief discrimination claims against the BBC.