Employers should not be complacent about the number of claims accepted by employment tribunals falling by a fifth, according to law experts. Figures published by the Tribunals Service this week revealed that 151,000 claims had been accepted in 200  More...
02 October 2009 10:01

Figures out today show that individual employment tribunal claims have increased since last year. XpertHR has a wealth of information and guidance for employers and HR on how to handle tribunal claims. Here are seven key steps to get you start  More...
30 September 2009 10:34

A Christian British Airways (BA) employee who was sent home for wearing a cross at work has been told she must bear the full costs of future legal action - estimated at £58,000, the BBC has reported. Nadia Eweida, 57, was sent home in Septembe  More...
28 September 2009 08:44

A nurse facing disciplinary action for wearing a cross necklace has accepted redeployment and instructed her lawyers to file a claim of discrimination. Shirley Chaplin was asked to remove the cross by her employers at The Royal Devon and Exeter Trus  More...
22 September 2009 09:22

A Sikh police officer is claiming £200,000 in a row about being asked to wear his turban over a helmet, which made him feel "like a character out of Only Fools and Horses". PC Gurmeal Singh, 31, of Greater Manchester Police, says he objecte  More...
17 September 2009 09:26

A paramedic who allegedly joked that Christmas was to be replaced by "lesbian single-mother Muslim day" is facing a misconduct hearing, the Telegraph has reported. Karl Touhey, 40, made offensive comments about Muslims, obese people, h  More...
02 September 2009 09:36

HR news and analysis including: How a significant increase in vacancies within the NHS has prompted accusations of poor workforce management What employers should be doing during Ramadan, and how the Muslim religious festival serves as a timel  More...
21 August 2009 15:13

A public sector HR chief has warned a new requirement to monitor religion during recruitment will pose "difficulties" if the function does not do more to understand and prepare for religious festivals and events. Graham White, the HR director at West  More...
19 August 2009 12:40

Top 5 tips for preparing for Ramadan 1. Try to avoid 'working lunches' as Muslims cannot participate 2. Consider enabling Muslims to work their lunch breaks in return for an earlier finish 3. Don't expect parti  More...
19 August 2009 12:39

A Sikh police officer has won her race and religious discrimination case against the Metropolitan police. Amandeep Kaur Grewal is to receive a five-figure compensation payment after a tribunal ruled she suffered racist and religious humiliation whi  More...
27 July 2009 13:59

I own a small business, employing eight people. One of my employees, a Hindu, is refusing to work with her new line manager because she is a Dalit or, as she says, a 'lower caste'. Our business is small so there is no scope to relocate or separate them.  More...
10 July 2009 00:42

Employers may care to be more wary about how they handle environmental martinets after a tribunal ruled that a man who claimed he was sacked because of his strong eco views could bring a case under the Employment Equality (Religion and Belief) regulatio  More...
07 July 2009 15:24

HR news and analysis including: the Equality Bill amendment to allow dual discrimination cases; how regulating no-win no-fee lawyers would impact on HR; and we ask for your suggestions on who should make it onto the Personnel Today Power  More...
03 July 2009 17:30

It looks as if religious bodies will have very few options when it comes to refusing to employ gay men and women in non-core roles. Ross Bentley looks at how this clash of ideologies will play out.  More...
01 July 2009 00:45

HR news and analysis including: possible headaches for videogame HR teams as a pioneering staff-sharing scheme is announced; an exclusive interview with Tesco’s HR director; and a Muslim waitress’s tribunal win following a dispute over a ti  More...
19 June 2009 16:55

T W Nicholson v Grainger Plc and others FACTS The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 prohibit discrimination in the workplace by reason of any religion or belief. The regulations were amended in 2007, so that "belief" now me  More...
27 May 2009 12:10

A Metropolitan Police HR manager was accused of "pulling faces and making racist gestures" during a meeting with a Muslim catering manager called because he refused to cook bacon, an employment tribunal was told yesterday. Hasanali Khoja, 60, said w  More...
12 May 2009 10:56

Are some equalities more equal than others? Equality laws may have created a pecking order of competing equalities where clashes can occur  More...
05 May 2009 14:06

A person of strong religious faith has asked me, the HR manager, if she can be moved from a workstation she shares with a gay man. That person openly discusses his lifestyle and relationship with another man, and the religious person says she finds such  More...
23 April 2009 16:40

Fourteen council staff have been suspended ahead of claims they sent one another racist e-mails, it emerged yesterday. Lancashire County Council has suspended the employees, who work in several different departments, ahead of disciplinary proceedings  More...
14 April 2009 09:33