All items: Harassment

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  Austin v Samuel Grant (North East) Ltd ET/2503956/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Heterosexual employee called "gay" because he does not like football wins harassment claim

    Date:

    2 August 2012

    In this tribunal decision, an employee who suffered workplace abuse successfully claimed sexual orientation and religion or belief harassment, despite being heterosexual and not declaring his religious beliefs.

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  Azmi v Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council [2007] IRLR 484 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Case of the week: Teaching assistant's appeal fails in veil dispute

    Date:

    17 April 2007

    This week's case of the week, provided by Eversheds, covers religious discrimination.

  • Azmi v Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council

    Date:

    2 April 2007

    In Azmi v Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council EAT/0009/07, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has dismissed an appeal against an employment tribunal's ruling that an employee who was dismissed for refusing to remove her veil while teaching had not been discriminated against on the grounds of religion or belief.

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  Azmi v Kirklees Metropolitan Council [2006] ET/1801450/06 (1 report relating to this case)

  • In the courts

    Date:

    1 December 2006

    This month's round-up of decisions on discrimination from the courts.

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  Bakkali v Greater Manchester Buses (South) Ltd (t/a Stage Coach Manchester) [2018] IRLR 906 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • EAT confirms importance of "context" in harassment cases

    Date:

    17 May 2018

    In Bakkali v Greater Manchester Buses (South) Ltd t/a Stage Coach Manchester, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that asking a Muslim employee whether or not he supported IS did not amount to harassment because, given the context, the offending comment was not "related to" his religious belief or race.

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  Bal v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Jobcentre Plus) ET/1303255/08 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Suggestion that toy helicopter be landed on employee's turban was harassment

    Date:

    7 October 2010

    This case demonstrates how a one-off office joke can result in liability for discrimination.

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  Breen v Bombardier NIFET/55/07 & NIFET/374/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employer did not discriminate by passing threats investigation to the police

    Date:

    26 April 2011

    This case shows that some incidents of harassment are so serious that the correct approach is for the employer to contact the police, rather than use its own internal harassment investigation procedure.

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  Dhinsa v Serco and another ET/1315002/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Ban on Sikh prison officer wearing ceremonial dagger not religious or race discrimination

    Date:

    24 May 2011

    This case concerns whether or not a Sikh prison officer should be allowed to wear a ceremonial dagger in the workplace.

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  Heafield v Times Newspaper Ltd EAT/1305/12 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Religion or belief discrimination: Context of remark is important in assessing whether or not it constituted harassment

    Date:

    11 June 2013

    In Heafield v Times Newspaper Ltd EAT/1305/12, the EAT held that there was no harassment based on religion or belief when an employee took offence at a colleague's comment using an expletive when referring to the Pope. In the context in which the remark was made, it could not reasonably be viewed as sufficiently offensive to amount to harassment.

  • Religious discrimination: colleague's enquiry using expletive about Pope story did not constitute harassment

    Date:

    21 February 2013

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld a tribunal decision that the context of a remark is important when assessing whether or not it constituted harassment. 

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  Heafield v Times Newspaper Ltd ET/3202080/2010 (1 report relating to this case)

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal in Heafield v Times Newspaper Ltd EAT/1305/12 had no difficulty in dismissing the claimant's appeal against this decision.

  • Roman Catholic sub-editor on Times newspaper not harassed by manager's shouted enquiry using expletive about Pope story

    Date:

    3 November 2012

    The context in which a potentially discriminatory remark is made can be pivotal in a harassment claim, as this unsuccessful religion or belief discrimination claim brought by a Times sub-editor shows.

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  Ladele v London Borough of Islington [2009] EWCA Civ 1357 CA (3 reports relating to this case)

  • Religious discrimination: Christian registrar disciplined for refusing to carry out civil partnership duties was not discriminated against unlawfully

    Date:

    24 February 2010

    In Ladele v London Borough of Islington [2009] EWCA Civ 1357 CA, the Court of Appeal held that a registrar with strong Christian beliefs about marriage who was threatened with dismissal for refusing to carry out civil partnership work did not suffer unlawful religious discrimination.

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 February 2010

    Susannah Jarvis (associate) and Kate Williams (professional support lawyer) at Addleshaw Goddard analyse important rulings.

  • Ladele v London Borough of Islington

    Date:

    17 December 2009

    The Court of Appeal has held that a registrar who refused to conduct civil partnership ceremonies between same-sex couples on the grounds that to do so would violate her Christian beliefs was not discriminated against on the grounds of her religion.