Victimisation

New and updated

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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".

• Gender reassignment 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.

• Victimisation: Focus of test for bad faith is honesty, not motivation

  Date:

  30 August 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Saad v Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that the primary question, when deciding if an employee acted in bad faith, is whether or not the employee acted honestly in making the discrimination allegation, not the employee's ulterior purpose.