by Rachel Goodman | Oct 27, 2014 | ED&I
Equal Pay for equal work! You may have seen on the news this weekend that Asda are facing mass legal action by women who work in their stores. Over 1000 women so far have lodged claims with apparently a further potential 19,000 enquiries being dealt with by the legal...
by Rachel Goodman | Sep 10, 2014 | ED&I
Useful article in Personnel Today outlining 10 examples of reasonable workplace adjustments to enable a disabled employee to stay in work.Employers often feel uncertain about what is and isn’t required of them and these case studies give some useful practical...
by Rachel Goodman | Jul 22, 2014 | ED&I
How fat is fat enough?! Overweight enough to be protected against discrimination that is? Last week The Advocate General gave his view that it is unlawful to discriminate against someone on the grounds of obesity. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) now has to decide...
by Rachel Goodman | Jun 24, 2014 | ED&I
Every employer’s worst nightmare? It would seem that Annabel Karmel (she of how to feed your children properly fame) was accused of sexual harassment and racial discrimination by an ex-employee. Charges that she has vehemently denied and which were subsequently...
by Sam Swinstead | Jul 1, 2013 | ED&I
Channel 4 are facing an Employment Tribunal for Age Discrimination after John McCririck was successful in a preliminary hearing to establish whether or not he had the right to bring a tribunal claim. Channel 4 had argued that McCririck was not an employee but the...
by Sam Swinstead | Jun 27, 2013 | ED&I
What is a disability for the purposes of the Equality Act? Well it appears that the definition is ever widening and employers should not be too hasty to assume that a medical condition will not be covered by the legislation for protection from Disability...
