All items: Sex discrimination

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  Peninsula Business Services Ltd v Donaldson EAT/0249/15 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Maternity discrimination: No discrimination where employer offering childcare vouchers as part of salary-sacrifice scheme did not offer vouchers during maternity leave

    Date:

    25 April 2016

    In Peninsula Business Services Ltd v Donaldson EAT/0249/15, the EAT held that childcare vouchers under a salary-sacrifice scheme constitute "remuneration", with the result that there is no legal obligation to continue their provision during maternity leave.

  • No requirement to offer childcare vouchers via salary sacrifice during maternity leave

    Date:

    10 March 2016

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that it is not discriminatory for an employer that offers childcare vouchers in return for a deduction from pay to cease to offer the vouchers during maternity leave.

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  (1) Clarke v Eley (IMI) Kynoch Ltd (2) Eley (IMI) Kynoch Ltd v Powell [1982] IRLR 482 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Discrimination: Part-timers first held indirect sex discrimination

    Date:

    21 December 1982

    In Clarke v Eley IMI) Kynoch Ltd and Eley (IMI) Kynoch Ltd v Powell, the EAT holds unlawful the blanket selection for redundancy of part-time workers, all of whom were women, before the criterion of last in first out was applied to full-timers.

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  (1) D & H Travel Ltd and (2) Henderson v Foster EAT/0226/06 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure round-up

    Date:

    16 February 2007

    A review of recent significant cases on practice and procedure in the EAT and the Court of Appeal.

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  (1) Dixon v Rees and (2) Hopkins v Shepherd & Partners [1993] IRLR 468 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Comparative approach endorsed

    Date:

    1 November 1993

    In (1) Dixon v Rees and (2) Hopkins v Shepherd & Partners (30 July 1993) EOR52C, the EAT rules that a comparison with how a man would be treated is necessary in pregnancy discrimination cases unless the case is one of dismissal for pregnancy "without more".

  • Comparative approach still applies

    Date:

    1 September 1993

    In (1) Dixon v Rees and (2) Hopkins v Shepherd & Partners the EAT has construed the House of Lords' decision in Webb v EMO Air Cargo as approving the test set out by the Court of Appeal requiring a comparison between the treatment of a pregnant woman and that of a man who also needed to be absent from work.

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  (1) Munchkins Restaurant Ltd (2) Moss v Karmazyn and others EAT/0359/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 August 2010

    Ceri Hughes, David Parry, and Carly Mather, associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

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  (1) Reed and (2) Bull Information Systems Ltd v Stedman [1999] IRLR 299 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Subjective test for harassment

    Date:

    1 July 1999

    In Reed and Bull Information Systems Ltd v Stedman (11 February 1999) EOR86B, the EAT provides general guidance on the correct approach to sexual harassment cases.

  • Sex discrimination: How tribunals should approach sexual harassment complaints

    Date:

    1 May 1999

    In Reed and another v Stedman, the EAT gives employment tribunals general guidance as to how they should approach complaints of sexual harassment at work. According to the EAT, sexual harassment is essentially words or conduct of a sexual nature which are unwelcome to the recipient.

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  A v (1) B (2) C [2002] ET/3104054/01 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 February 2003

    Hilary Slater, consultant with Cobbetts solicitors, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

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  A v (1) C & T Townsend t/a Ultimate Sports (2) C [2006] ET/3201244/04 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest: sexual harassment

    Date:

    1 February 2007

    Tina McKevitt, lecturer in employment law at University of Sheffield, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

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  A v (1) R1 Ltd (in liquidation) (2) R2 Ltd [2002] ET/3301111/01 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 February 2003

    Hilary Slater, consultant with Cobbetts solicitors, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

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  A v B [1999] ET/2600463/98 (1 report relating to this case)

  • £23,000 for injury to feelings

    Date:

    1 June 1999

    In A v B a Lincoln employment tribunal (Chair: J Walker) awards compensation of£36,290 (plus interest), including £23,000 for injury to feelings, to a young woman subjected to sexual harassment.