‘In Finn v British Bung Manufacturing Company [2023] EAT 165, the EAT upheld an employment tribunal’s decision that calling a male colleague a ‘bald c**nt’ was harassment related to sex. The employer’s counterargument, that baldness is not an exclusively male characteristic, failed.’
Cloisters, 8th October 2024
Source: www.cloisters.com
‘A paralegal has been awarded £41,000 in damages against a law firm that unfairly dismissed and discriminated against her because she could not work full-time due to disability.’
Legal Futures, 11th November 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘In the second session of our Autumn/Winter Employment Series, Nick Bidnell-Edwards and Safia Tharoo provide a concise review of whistleblowing law for detriment and dismissal claims, including recent developments, followed by practical tips on how to bring and to defend the claims.’
Local Government Lawyer, 1st November 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Begum, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Tower Hamlets (2024) EWHC 2279 (Admin) – Ms Begum had applied as homeless to Tower Hamlets in 2001. She was given temporary accommodation in a studio flat. 5 months later her first child was born. In June 2022, she complained about the suitability of the studio, which at that time was still s.188 accommodation. In October 2022, Tower Hamlets accepted the full duty. An internal memo recorded that Ms B had requested a transfer due to overcrowding. By March 2023, Ms B was pregnant with her second child, with a due date in September 2023. Between May and July 2023 there was correspondence between Ms B’s solicitors and Tower Hamlets on the suitability of the accommodation. The present claim was issued and interim relief ordered in August 2023. Three days later, Tower Hamlets made an offer of accommodation which Ms B accepted.’
Nearly Legal, 20th October 2024
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘The London Borough of Tower Hamlets has resisted a claim that a database of homeless applicants either needing or requesting a move to alternative accommodation, was a “waiting list” or means of delaying suitable accommodation being provided, and that it put women at a disadvantage.’
Local Government Lawyer, 9th October 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘During an average shift on the shop floor at Next, Helen Scarsbrook has to remain polite and keep smiling while she makes split-second judgments about which customers need help and which need to be tactfully discouraged from shoplifting and ushered out of the store.’
The Guardian, 1st September 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A legal secretary has won her claim of sexual harassment against a law firm whose owner was jokingly described by a colleague as a “sexual predator”.’
Legal Futures, 5th July 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘AK, R (On the Application Of) v Westminster City Council (2024) EWHC 769 (Admin). This was a judicial review of Westminster’s Allocation policy as it applied to ‘reciprocal transfers’ between another borough and Westminster.’
Nearly Legal, 23rd June 2024
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘A doctor who inappropriately touched two junior female colleagues has been struck off the medical register.’
BBC News, 28th May 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Government has recently passed new legislation to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 is due to come into force on 26 October 2024. Nicole Natur takes a closer look at the Act and how it will impact employers, as well as the steps that should be taken in order to prepare for the change.’
Local Government Lawyer, 28th May 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Girls at a Bradford primary school told Ofsted inspectors they are treated differently to boys during an inspection last September.’
BBC News, 7th May 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Four presenters have begun legal action against the BBC on grounds of sex and age discrimination and equal pay.’
BBC News, 1st May 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The High Court has held that part of Westminster City Council’s Housing Allocation Scheme is unlawful, as it indirectly discriminates against women and girls who need to move borough to escape violence.’
Garden Court Chambers, 10th April 2024
Source: www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk
‘A claimant has won a judicial review challenge in the High Court over Westminster City Council’s decision to refuse to agree to her request for a “reciprocal transfer” into accommodation in its area.’
Local Government Lawyer, 9th April 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Describing a pregnant woman as “very emotional and tearful” in the workplace amounted to discrimination, a tribunal has ruled.’
The Guardian, 3rd April 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘This article addresses work-related and gendered harms of the “hostile environment”, a set of measures implemented through the Immigration Acts of 2014 and 2016, which aims to make life in the UK impossible for irregular migrants. The hostile environment criminalises work without legal status, facilitates data sharing between public bodies and immigration enforcement, and restricts access services and benefits. The article examines factors that can make women susceptible to irregularity and exposure to hostile environment measures, and distinctive forms of gendered harm such as workplace sexual harassment. It argues that the detrimental impacts of the hostile environment contravene international and regional human rights obligations. Barring certain migrants from access to the labour market may violate the socio-economic right to work and/ or the right to private and family life, while a lack of access to legal remedy or labour inspection fuelled can violate migrants’ right to decent work and undermine protections against forced labour. The UK’s recent ratification of the Council of Europe’s “Istanbul Convention” and ILO Convention 190 on violence and harassment at work signifies a renewed commitment to safeguarding women regardless of migration status, but the universalistic potential of these instruments is undermined by the hostile environment’s continued operation.’
Industrial Law Journal, March 2024
Source: academic.oup.com
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