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Pregnancy and maternity discrimination: Employment tribunal round-up

Date:: 25 May 2022

We look at five recent cases in which employers have been found to have discriminated against employees who were pregnant or on maternity leave.

Coronavirus: Dismissal for refusing to attend workplace not automatically unfair

Date:: 11 May 2022

In Rodgers v Leeds Laser Cutting Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld a tribunal's decision that the employee's dismissal for refusing to return to the workplace because of concerns about the pandemic was not automatically unfair for a health and safety reason.

Difficult pregnancies and pregnancy loss: Employment tribunal round-up

Date:: 10 February 2022

We look at four employment tribunal cases in which the claimants successfully argued that they were discriminated against during difficult pregnancies and pregnancy loss.

Pregnancy discrimination: "Egregious acts" permitted 25% Acas uplift to awards

Date:: 16 December 2021

In Slade and another v Biggs and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the tribunal had been entitled to apply the 25% Acas uplift to the awards for aggravated damages and injury to feelings, given its findings of serious pregnancy discrimination.

Pregnancy and maternity discrimination: Employment tribunal round-up

Date:: 5 October 2021

We round up four recent employment tribunal decisions where employers' actions have resulted in pregnancy and maternity discrimination claims and provide practical tips on how to reduce the risks of similar claims.

Unfair dismissal: £13,081 award for mother who left office to collect sick child

Date:: 21 September 2021

In Henderson v AccountsNet Ltd, the employment tribunal awarded £13,081 to a trainee accountant who was found to have been unfairly dismissed after she left the office to collect her ill child from school.

Coronavirus employment tribunal round-up: Employees raising health and safety concerns

Date:: 23 June 2021

With coronavirus-related employment tribunal rulings now appearing regularly, we examine four early examples of first-instance decisions where an employer dismissed an employee who refused, or was reluctant, to attend work because of health and safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unfair dismissal: Dismissal due to trade union activities, not urinating publicly

Date:: 20 January 2021

In Rawal v Royal Mail Group Ltd ET, an employment tribunal held that the principal reason for the employee's dismissal was his trade union activities, not because he had urinated in a public place.

Whistleblowing dismissal claims: Supreme Court rules on knowledge of decision-maker

Date:: 28 November 2019

In Royal Mail Group Ltd v Jhuti, the Supreme Court held that, where a dismissal for making protected disclosures is hidden behind an invented reason that is adopted by the decision-maker, the reason for the dismissal is the hidden reason rather than the invented one.

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Cases on appeal

Pregnancy and maternity discrimination: Employment tribunal round-up

Coronavirus: Dismissal for refusing to attend workplace not automatically unfair

Difficult pregnancies and pregnancy loss: Employment tribunal round-up

Pregnancy discrimination: "Egregious acts" permitted 25% Acas uplift to awards

Pregnancy and maternity discrimination: Employment tribunal round-up

Unfair dismissal: £13,081 award for mother who left office to collect sick child

Coronavirus employment tribunal round-up: Employees raising health and safety concerns

Unfair dismissal: Dismissal due to trade union activities, not urinating publicly

Whistleblowing dismissal claims: Supreme Court rules on knowledge of decision-maker

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