"Racial grounds" widely construed

This report relates to 1 case(s)

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  Weathersfield Ltd t/a Van & Truck Rentals v Sargent [1999] IRLR 94 CA (2 other reports)

  • Purposive construction of "racial grounds"

    Date:

    1 March 1999

    In Weathersfield Ltd t/a Van & Truck Rentals v Sargent the Court of Appeal has ruled that an employee is unfavourably treated on racial grounds if they are required to carry out a racially discriminatory policy, even though the instruction concerns others of a different racial group to themselves.

  • Race discrimination: White woman told to discriminate against black people was herself racially discriminated against

    Date:

    15 January 1999

    A white woman who left her job with a vehicle rental company because she objected to its policy of not hiring vehicles to black people was herself the victim of unlawful race discrimination, holds the Court of Appeal in Weathersfield Ltd (t/a Van & Truck Rentals) v Sargent.