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- Date:
- 29 September 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An unfortunate situation arose for this small employer when a recruitment consultant was made redundant after she had informed it, just two weeks into her new job, that she was pregnant. She claimed sex discrimination and unfair dismissal after seeing an advert shortly after her redundancy stating that the company was seeking recruitment consultants.
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- Date:
- 28 July 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case is an example of a common scenario for employers that operate in male-dominated environments: a challenge to the authority of a female manager by a group of male employees who are not used to being managed by a woman.
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- Date:
- 30 June 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case is an example of an employer that needed to deal with the extremely difficult issue of having a disciplinary matter pending against a member of staff on maternity leave.
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- Date:
- 28 June 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this case, an Indian employee alleged that his employer had instructed him to adopt an anglicised alias at work.
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- Date:
- 7 June 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, where there are multiple respondents and particular loss cannot be attributed to one party, employment tribunals must award compensation on a joint and several liability basis, meaning that the claimant can claim the entire amount from any respondent.
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- Date:
- 31 May 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This Northern Ireland industrial tribunal decision is a succinct example of an employer discriminating against a female employee with childcare responsibilities by having inflexible working hours.
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- Date:
- 1 May 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Martin v Devonshires Solicitors EAT/0086/10, the EAT held that, where an employer dismisses an employee in response to his or her protected act, the employer may not have unlawfully victimised the employee where the reason for the dismissal was some feature of the protected act that can be treated as separable.
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- Date:
- 1 May 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Joanne Magill, associate, and Claire Benson and Ceri Hughes, managing associates, at Addleshaw Goddard detail the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 7 April 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that "special treatment" afforded to a woman in connection with pregnancy or childbirth under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 must constitute a proportionate means of achieving the legitimate aim of compensating her for the disadvantages occasioned by pregnancy or maternity leave.
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- Date:
- 23 March 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this case, the industrial tribunal in Northern Ireland ordered a care worker's former employer to pay her £9,500 for sex discrimination after it failed to provide her with a reference.