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- Date:
- 8 June 2021
- Type:
- Editor's choice
XpertHR rounds up a range of resources to help HR manage the unique challenges and employment issues that may arise this summer.
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- Date:
- 8 June 2021
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
This summer sees employees who holiday abroad facing quarantine when they return, work-life balance issues for parents during school holidays, two major sporting events, and the furlough scheme winding down. Principal employment law editor Stephen Simpson explains the unique challenges the summer of 2021 provides for HR.
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- Type:
- Policies and documents
Updated to include reference to dress and appearance when working remotely.
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- Date:
- 24 September 2018
- Type:
- Survey analysis
XpertHR explores the different approaches taken by employers to dress and appearance in the workplace and the challenges involved in ensuring that rules are followed
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- Date:
- 26 July 2017
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
In this podcast, Darren Newman explores the issue of sex discrimination and workplace dress codes.
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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.
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- Date:
- 2 June 2016
- Type:
- Law reports
The Advocate General has said that it is not direct religious discrimination for an employer with a policy of religious and political neutrality to prevent a Muslim employee from wearing an Islamic headscarf.
