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- Date:
- 20 April 2015
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An employment tribunal has held that a requirement that police firearms officers with one year away from work attend an intensive firearms training course on their return indirectly discriminated against a female police officer returning from maternity leave.
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- Date:
- 14 April 2015
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An employment tribunal has awarded a zero hours contract worker £19,500 after her employer failed properly to investigate allegations that her line manager, who decided how many hours' work she was given, had sexually harassed her.
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- Date:
- 17 March 2015
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An employment tribunal has found that Greater Manchester Police indirectly discriminated against a single-parent police officer who worked term time only when it introduced a requirement that she work nine days during school holidays. The case is a stark reminder to public-sector organisations reviewing flexible working arrangements as a way to cut costs to beware of the potential for discrimination.
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- Date:
- 25 February 2015
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The employment tribunal in this case had the unusual task of deciding whether or not a female employee was sexually harassed when she witnessed her male line manager and another man re-enacting a scene from the film Ghost at an office party. While the tribunal found that this incident was not harassment under the Equality Act 2010, the employer was ordered to pay the claimant £2,000 for several other incidents that displayed her line manager's "predilection for innuendo", and to reimburse £1,200 in tribunal fees to the claimant.
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- Date:
- 2 September 2014
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Ford has successfully justified its policy of paying men on additional paternity leave the statutory minimum, while at the same time offering generous enhanced maternity pay to women on maternity leave.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 19 May 2014
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this unusual tribunal decision, a male employee successfully claimed sexual harassment against two other men, including the owner of the business.
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- Date:
- 19 March 2014
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that it was not direct sex discrimination or pregnancy and maternity discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 for an employer eventually to dismiss an employee who was on long-term sick leave for post-natal depression that continued long after her maternity leave had ended.
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- Date:
- 10 March 2014
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the fact that a claimant had worked under an illegal contract did not prevent her from claiming sex discrimination.
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- Date:
- 28 February 2014
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employer's false explanation given for the withdrawal of a flexible working arrangement in evidence during a tribunal hearing reversed the burden of proof in a direct sex discrimination claim.