Case law

A ferry company has updated its toilet door signs to use symbols rather than words and carried out diversity awareness...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that a Christian employee, dismissed for not divorcing her husband when he was...

A mistake by a private security company during a training exercise led to a fake bomb being left in a...

An employment tribunal rejected an unfair dismissal claim by a line manager who was sacked when he refused to take...

In University of London v Morrissey, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) found that the University of London breached the Information...

An employment tribunal held that a nurse was the victim of discrimination arising from disability, after her prospective employer withdrew...

The Court of Appeal has confirmed that, in cases involving direct discrimination in the workplace, it is the motive of...

Law firm Eversheds has said its appeal on behalf of British Gas against the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision in ...

An employment tribunal has held that it was discrimination arising from disability for an employee with mental health problems to...

UK laws preventing discrimination against people based on their size should

An employment tribunal has held that a director’s comment to an employee with depression that “everyone gets depressed sometimes, you...

The High Court has upheld a challenge by way of judicial review to the present criminal record checks scheme, finding...

An NHS trust did not commit religious discrimination against a Christian health worker who was disciplined for inappropriately promoting her...

How does HR manage employees whose absence patterns or other evidence suggest they are malingerers? Catharine Cooksley looks at recent...

"Discrimination arising from disability" is a relatively new concept introduced...