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- Date:
- 29 October 2013
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Employers that operate a transparent and carefully recorded recruitment process have little to fear if they find themselves in an employment tribunal, as this race discrimination case shows.
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- Date:
- 12 June 2013
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that where multiple grievances are made in good faith, albeit are ill founded, they are protected acts for which the employer cannot subject the employee to a detriment.
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- Date:
- 21 May 2013
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this well-publicised race discrimination case, a job applicant engineered a tribunal claim by submitting two applications for a job with Virgin Atlantic: the first using his real African name and stating that he is a black African; the second using a fake British-sounding name and stating his ethnicity as white British.
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- Date:
- 6 March 2013
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this race discrimination case, the employment tribunal said that it could not interpret the Equality Act 2010 to cover caste discrimination when the claimant and alleged perpetrators are at different levels of the same caste.
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- Date:
- 1 March 2013
- Type:
- Employment law cases
David Malamatenios is a partner and Colin Makin, Sandra Martins, Melissa Powys- Rodrigues and Linda Quinn are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 31 January 2013
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision by the Employment Appeal Tribunal that, where there are multiple respondents and particular loss cannot be attributed to one party, employment tribunals must award compensation on a joint and several liability basis, meaning that the claimant can claim the entire amount from any respondent.
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- Date:
- 1 December 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamentenios are partners and Melissa Powys-Rogrigues, Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 7 November 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers the burden of proof in discrimination cases.
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- Date:
- 29 August 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
With workplaces in the UK having an increasing variety of nationalities working together, this case is a good example of some of the problems that can occur when colleagues insist on communicating in their first language, to the possible exclusion of other workers who do not speak this language.
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- Date:
- 4 July 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The employment tribunal in this case took the unusual decision that the employer victimised the claimant when it allowed an Acas conciliation officer to forward her an email questioning her abilities and suggesting that she would never be promoted because of weaknesses in her literacy skills.