In the employment tribunals: May 2011
XpertHR provides summaries of recent employment tribunal rulings.
Sex discrimination: inflexible rota system not justified by cost-cutting alone
Employer did not discriminate against Asperger's applicant by not making adjustments to group interview exercise
Engineer unfairly dismissed for refusal to work during annual shutdown
Ban on Sikh prison officer wearing ceremonial dagger not religious or race discrimination
Employer's failure to publicise job vacancies led to constructive dismissal
Sainsbury's employee fairly dismissed for abusing store discount card with bulk computer game purchases
Employer wrong to impose same disciplinary sanction on junior employee as his superior
Sales manager fairly dismissed for poaching employer's staff for rival venture
Serial urinators caught on covert CCTV footage were fairly dismissed
Harassed employee was the "unwilling Barbara Windsor" to discriminator's "Sid James"
Majority finds teacher's dismissal for "racy" novel about her pupils fair
£19,000 for bus driver's summary dismissal for running service early
Non-contractual handbook's enhanced sick pay provisions were incorporated into contract
