Direct discrimination

New and updated

• Right to work: Employer wrong to rely on checking service

  Date:

  17 December 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Badara v Pulse Healthcare Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer should not have relied solely on negative Home Office checks when it dismissed the employee for failing to provide right to work documentation.

• Age discrimination

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on Bessong v Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, in which the EAT considered if an employer can be held liable for third-party harassment under the Equality Act 2010.

• Religion or belief discrimination

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on Bessong v Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, in which the EAT considered if an employer can be held liable for third-party harassment under the Equality Act 2010.

• Disability discrimination

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on Bessong v Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, in which the EAT considered if an employer can be held liable for third-party harassment under the Equality Act 2010.

• Pregnancy and maternity discrimination

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on Forbes v LHR Airport Ltd, in which the EAT considered if posting an offensive image on Facebook was done "in the course of employment".

• Sex discrimination

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on Bessong v Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, in which the EAT considered if an employer can be held liable for third-party harassment under the Equality Act 2010.

• Race discrimination

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on Bessong v Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, in which the EAT considered if an employer can be held liable for third-party harassment under the Equality Act 2010.

• Withdrawing offer of overseas posting was not direct disability discrimination

  Date:

  24 May 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Owen v Amec Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd and another, the Court of Appeal held that refusing to allow a disabled employee to undertake an overseas posting due to medical concerns did not amount to direct disability discrimination.

• Sexual orientation discrimination

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on Bessong v Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, in which the EAT considered if an employer can be held liable for third-party harassment under the Equality Act 2010.

• Marriage and civil partnership discrimination

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on Forbes v LHR Airport Ltd, in which the EAT considered if posting an offensive image on Facebook was done "in the course of employment".