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- Date:
- 31 December 2000
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Pell v Wagstaff and Wheatley Hotel [2000] ET/2801882/99, an employment tribunal found that Mr Pell had been less favourably treated on the grounds of his sex when he was turned down for a job because he refused to cut his long hair.
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- Date:
- 1 December 2000
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Abrahamsson and Anderson v Fogelqvist the European Court of Justice rules that provisions of Swedish legislation intended to address the underrepresentation of women in university appointments were precluded by EC equal treatment legislation.
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- Date:
- 1 September 2000
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Canniffe v East Riding of Yorkshire Council, the EAT holds that the proper approach to the employer's statutory defence to vicarious liability for unlawful discrimination is, first, to identify whether or not the employer took any steps at all to prevent the employee, for whom it is vicariously liable, from doing the act or acts complained of in the course of his or her employment; and secondly, having identified what steps, if any, the employer took, to consider whether or not there were any further steps, that it could have taken, which were reasonably practicable.
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- Date:
- 1 September 2000
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Noor v Telewest Communications (South East) Ltd a London South employment tribunal (Chair: M E Stacey) holds that a female sales representative, the only woman in a sales force of around 70 employees, was subjected to a number of incidents of sexual harassment over a 12-month period, including the posting of female pin-ups in her office and the making of sexist comments about her by a manager in front of her colleagues.
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- Date:
- 15 July 2000
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An employee was not barred from claiming compensation under the Sex Discrimination Act by reason of the fact that her contract of employment was allegedly tainted by illegality, holds the Court of Appeal in Hall v Woolston Hall Leisure Ltd.
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- Date:
- 1 March 2000
- Type:
- Employment law cases
A female manager who resigned after being ordered home to change from her trouser suit into a skirt, was unlawfully discriminated against on grounds of sex, holds a Birmingham employment tribunal (Chair: A J McCarry) in Owen v the Professional Golf Association.
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- Date:
- 1 September 1999
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Stubbs v (1) Chief Constable of Lincolnshire Police and (2) Walker a Nottingham employment tribunal (Chair: D R Sneath) reconvenes to award compensation of £182,000, including £41,500 for injury to feelings and injury to health to a former detective retired from the police force on ill-health grounds following its ruling that she had been subject to a lengthy period of sexual harassment and discrimination by her line manager.
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- Date:
- 1 August 1999
- Type:
- Employment law cases
A pregnant employee of a ferry company, who was suspended from working on board ship in accordance with Regulations precluding those with specified medical conditions, including pregnancy, from working at sea, suffered direct sex discrimination when she did not receive full pay during the period of her suspension, holds the EAT in P&O European Ferries (Dover) Ltd and another v Iverson.
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- Date:
- 15 May 1999
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Abbey National plc v Formoso, the EAT rejects an employment tribunal's "reasonable employer" approach to calculating the financial loss flowing from a discriminatory dismissal.
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- Date:
- 15 March 1999
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Chief Constable of the constabulary to which police officers were originally appointed remained vicariously liable for acts of sex discrimination committed by his officers while they were on secondment to branches of the Regional Crime Squad, holds the EAT in Chief Constable of the Lincolnshire Constabulary v Stubbs and others.