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  • Date:
    1 July 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamatenios are partners and Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    24 May 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Au pair's discrimination claims barred for being inextricably linked with her own illegal conduct

    The Court of Appeal has held that an employee who worked in the UK knowing that she did not have permission to do so was unable to claim discrimination against her unlawful employers, given that her illegal actions formed a material part of her discrimination claims. 

  • Date:
    1 May 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamatenios are partners and Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    24 April 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    EU law does not require employers to disclose details of successful candidate to unsuccessful job applicant

    The European Court of Justice has held that an employer is not obliged to provide an unsuccessful job applicant with information on the successful candidate, although a failure to do so could lead to an inference of discrimination in a subsequent tribunal claim.

  • Date:
    1 March 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    David Malamatenios and Georgina Kyriacou are partners, and Krishna Santra, Colin Makin and Sandra Martins are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    1 March 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Male employee was sexually harassed by a male colleague's "how's it hanging?" greeting

    The employment tribunal in this case took the unusual step of upholding complaints of direct sex discrimination and sexual harassment in relation to events that had occurred up to three years out of time.

  • Date:
    1 February 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Chris McAvoy, Sarah Wade, David Rintoul, Helen Corbett and Kristin Aarvik are associate solicitors at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    11 January 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Race discrimination: former NHS worker awarded nearly £1m

    In this case, the employment tribunal awarded an NHS worker, who was dismissed from his senior position in the NHS, close to £1m for race discrimination, despite the tribunal's refusal to increase the award for future loss of earnings on the basis of the worker's argument that he might have been promoted before he retired.

  • Date:
    16 December 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Race and sex discrimination: former NHS doctor with post-traumatic stress disorder awarded almost £4.5m

    This employment tribunal has awarded a former NHS doctor one of the largest ever discrimination payouts after she was subjected to a sustained campaign of sex and race discrimination. The tribunal found the NHS trust and three senior managers, one of whom was the HR director, jointly and severally liable for compensation.

  • Date:
    23 August 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    "Borat" nickname for Polish employee was discrimination

    This is a classic example of an ill-advised workplace nickname resulting in a successful discrimination claim.