Race discrimination: An employee's illegal immigration status did not operate as a bar to defeat her discrimination claims

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  Hounga v Allen and another [2014] IRLR 811 SC (1 other report)

  • Racial harassment: Supreme Court allows illegal employee's discrimination claim to proceed

    Date:

    5 August 2014

    The Supreme Court has held that the connection between an employee's immigration offences and the statutory civil wrong of discrimination is insufficiently close to prevent her from making a claim for pre-dismissal racial harassment.