Race discrimination: Deselected Labour candidate can make race discrimination complaint
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Sawyer v Ahsan [1999] IRLR 609 EAT (1 other report)
An employment tribunal was correct in holding that it had jurisdiction to entertain an applicant's complaint that a regional committee of the Labour Party had discriminated against him on racial grounds in failing to select him as a Labour candidate for the local government elections, contrary to s.12 of the Race Relations Act 1976, says the EAT in Sawyer v Ahsan [1999] IRLR 609. The relevant committee's approval was at least "needed for" his engagement in what could be regarded for these purposes as the "profession" or "occupation" of councillor.