Suffering a detriment for the purpose of victimisation
What is the case about? In accordance with the Equality Act 2010, victimisation is defined when one person treats another person to a detriment either because that person has carried out a protected act or the first person believes the second person has carried out, or may carry out, a protected act. A protected act […]
The 4 types of discrimination: what every employer needs to know
The word ‘discrimination’ is often used on a day to day basis to describe being treated unfairly for a particular reason; but unlawful discrimination happens when less favourable or unfair treatment relates to specific characteristics, known legally as ‘protected characteristics’. The UK have nine protected characteristics, which are set out in the Equality Act 2010. There […]
Age Discrimination: Ensuring Fairness and Inclusivity
According to Acas, age discrimination is one of the most common forms of unfair treatment in the workplace. Treating someone unfairly at work because of their age is against the law, apart from in some very limited circumstances. The common areas where age discrimination is most likely to occur are: recruitment, training, promotion, pay and […]
Being called ‘fat’ was not discrimination arising from a disability
Employment Appeal Tribunal Case: Evans v Xactly Corporation Ltd UKEATPA Category: Disability discrimination, harassment and victimisation In this employment appeal tribunal case the employee was disabled and was dismissed for poor performance. He claimed that both the process that led to dismissal and the dismissal itself, amounted to direct discrimination in relation to the protected […]
£2m ruling for whistleblow dismissal and directors held personally liable
In 2017 International Petroleum Ltd (IPL) appealed the tribunal decision which found that their Chief Executive had been unfairly dismissed for making protected disclosures about the business’ operations and contracts which were awarded in West Africa. The Chief Executive had several disagreements with the company Chairman and one of the largest shareholders about his concerns. […]