BP Chemicals Ltd v Gillick and Roevin Management Services Ltd [1995] IRLR 128 EAT
Reports relating to this case:
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Discrimination against agency worker
- Date:
- 1 January 1995
In BP Chemicals Ltd v Gillick and Roevin Management Services Ltd (24 August 1994) EOR59C, the EAT rules that s.9 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 covers discrimination against a contract worker by a principal who refused to allow her to return to work after time off due to pregnancy and maternity.
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Sex discrimination: Contract worker protected by SDA
- Date:
- 1 December 1994
A contract worker supplied to a client company by an employment agency was entitled to pursue a sex discrimination complaint against the client company, even though she had no direct contractual relationship with that company and was not actually working at the time relevant to the complaint, holds the EAT in BP Chemicals Ltd v Gillick.