Source: Discrimination Case Law Digest Issue: 48 Date: 01-06-2001 Publisher: IRS

Employer must show "real need"

TOPICS:
terms, conditions and employee rights working patterns
equal opportunities sex
termination of employment dismissal

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Allonby v Accrington and Rossendale College [2001] IRLR 364 CA (7 reports)


In Allonby v Accrington & Rossendale College the Court of Appeal has held that once an employment tribunal has made a finding that a requirement or condition has a disparate impact on women, the tribunal is obliged to make a critical evaluation of whether the employers' reasons for imposing the conditions demonstrated a "real need".

One of Debra Allonby's claims against Accrington and Rossendale College was a complaint of indirect sex discrimination in respect of her dismissal as a part-time hourly-paid lecturer.

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