Equal Opportunities archive 2012

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5 June 2013
Government publishes new employment tribunal
rules, Tribunals service confirms
implementation date for fees, Compensation
in discrimination cases; and pay setting

10 April 2013
Government publishes response to
consultation on employment tribunal rules,
Disability discrimination: Obese
individual suffering from multiple
symptoms is disabled

13 February 2013
Age discrimination: EAT holds age-related
severance payments not discriminatory, "Yoda"
nickname among evidence of age bias against
older worker made redundant

12 December 2012
Age discrimination: Swedish default retirement
age is justified and therefore lawful, Equality
Act 2010: employment tribunal allows post-
employment victimisation claim to proceed

4 October 2012
October 2012: pensions auto-enrolment begins,
minimum wage increases and default retirement
age regime ends, Disability discrimination;
and race discrimination

8 August 2012
Government publishes details of employment
tribunal fees, Proposals requiring tribunals to
order equal pay audits confirmed, Disability
discrimination, Victimisation; and redundancy

11 April 2012
Definition of "independent adviser" for compromise
agreements clarified, Changes to tribunal procedure
come into force, Equal pay: Preservation of higher pay
after TUPE transfer was genuine material factor

8 February 2012
Compensation: Liability for indivisible loss caused
by discriminators must be joint and several, Religious
discrimination: Refusal to permit Friday lunchtime
attendance at mosque was justified

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