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- Date:
- 3 January 2018
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
Brexit may mean a degree of uncertainty in employment law, but what is the direction of travel in 2018? Beverley Sunderland considers the key issues likely to arise.
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- Date:
- 26 July 2017
- Type:
- Audio and video
In this podcast, Darren Newman explores the issue of sex discrimination and workplace dress codes.
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- Date:
- 7 July 2017
- Type:
- Audio and video
We provide a mid-year round-up of key employment law cases in 2017.
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- Date:
- 24 April 2017
- Type:
- News
New guidance on workplace dress codes will be published by the Government, but there will be no changes to the law following receptionist Nicola Thorp's petition to make it illegal to require women to wear high heels at work.
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- Date:
- 20 April 2017
- Type:
- Legal guidance
Recent European court judgments have suggested that employers can justify a ban on employees wearing certain religious items. But what do these cases mean for employers drawing up dress codes and will Brexit affect how they are interpreted in future?
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- Type:
- Policies and documents
Updated to include information on the ECJ judgments in Achbita v G4S Secure Solutions NV and Bougnaoui v Micropole Univers, on employers preventing female staff from wearing Islamic headscarfs while working with clients.
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- Date:
- 14 March 2017
- Type:
- Law reports
The European Court of Justice has held that a direct religious discrimination claim in which an employee who wears an Islamic headscarf is dismissed to appease a customer cannot be defended on the basis of a "genuine and determining occupational requirement".
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- Date:
- 14 March 2017
- Type:
- Law reports
The European Court of Justice has held that a ban on religious dress that prevents a Muslim woman from wearing an Islamic headscarf when in contact with clients cannot be directly discriminatory, but is potentially indirectly discriminatory.
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- Date:
- 3 August 2016
- Type:
- Law reports
In Begum v Pedagogy Auras UK Ltd t/a Barley Lane Montessori Day Nursery EAT/0309/13, the EAT upheld an employment tribunal decision that there was no religious discrimination against a Muslim interviewee who was asked by the interviewer if she could wear religious clothing that did not present a trip hazard.
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- Date:
- 14 July 2016
- Type:
- Law reports
The Advocate General has suggested that an employer cannot have a blanket ban on religious dress that prevents a Muslim woman from wearing an Islamic headscarf when in contact with clients.
