A female police firearms officer tricked into opening a filing cabinet full of porn and offered a “pink gun” as a weapon has been awarded £20,000 in compensation.
Daily Telegraph, 21st May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A trainee lawyer is in line for compensation from a top City law firm after winning her case for discrimination after she missed out on a job because she was pregnant.”
The Guardian, 19th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A City banker was ‘victimised’ by her bank after it discovered she was suing her former employer for sexual discrimination, a tribunal has ruled. Latifa Bouabdillah was sacked by Commerzbank after less than a month when her boss heard she was suing her former employer, Deutsche Bank, for more than £1m in damages for sexual discrimination.”
The Guardian, 15th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Employers may not realise that they’re favouring ‘people like us’ applicants but a recent tribunal case highlights how the burden is on the employer to explain a difference in treatment.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The secretary of state’s policy in respect of rub-down searches of prisoners, which allows cross-gender searches in the case of male prisoners but not for female prisoners, does not discriminate against male prisoners on grounds of sex.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 4th April 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Regina (Dowsett) v Secretary of State for Justice [2013] EWHC 687 (Admin); [2013] WLR (D) 126
“The Secretary of State’s policy that male prisoners could not normally object to “rub-down” searches being conducted by a female prison officer except on genuine religious or cultural grounds was not discriminatory on grounds of sex or lack of religion. The exceptions to the policy were a proportionate way of dealing with genuine objections by male prisoners to being searched by female officers and the width of the exceptions to the policy did not lead to an unacceptable risk of unlawful decision-making.”
WLR Daily, 27th March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Julie Burchill was entitled to write a controversial article about transsexuals
because she was expressing her opinion, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC)
has ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Kenny v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform (Case C-427/11); [2013] WLR (D) 87
“In the light of article 141 EC and Council Directive 75/117/EEC (relating to the application of the principle of equal pay for men and women meant, in relation to indirect pay discrimination), it was for the employer to establish objective justification for the difference in pay between workers who considered that they had been indirectly discriminated against and the comparators. The employer’s justification for the difference in pay had to relate to the comparators. The interests of good industrial relations might be taken into consideration by the national court as one factor among others in its assessment of whether differences between the pay of two groups of workers were due to objective factors unrelated to any discrimination on grounds of sex and are compatible with the principle of proportionality.”
WLR Daily, 28th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Hackney London Borough Council v Sivanandan and others: [2013] EWCA Civ 22; [2013] WLR (D) 34
“The employment tribunal had not erred in law when, on a complaint of victimisation, it made an award of compensation against an employer which was much larger than an award it had already made against the employer’s employee at an earlier remedy hearing in which the employer had not taken part.”
WLR Daily, 29th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The financial sector will no longer be allowed to use gender as a determining factor in the assessment of risk and therefore the price of premiums and benefits from Friday 21 December 2012.”
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Cloisters, 19th December 2012
Source: www.cloisters.com
“Male pensioners will lose up to £10,000 in retirement income due to the
introduction this week of European Court rules banning sex discrimination by
financial firms, a report warns.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Women who take out car or life insurance could find themselves paying as much as £500 more when an EU ruling on gender comes into force on Friday.”
The Guardian, 17th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Should the aristocracy follow the Royal Family and change the laws of succession?”
The Independent, 16th December 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A new law which will end discrimination against women in the line of succession
to the British throne has been published.”
BBC News, 13th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Equal pay litigation has reached “almost epidemic proportions” but has failed to eradicate unfair pay discrimination over the past few decades, a leading judge has claimed.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“All Commonwealth realms have agreed to press ahead with a bill ending discrimination against women in the succession to the British throne.”
BBC News, 4th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Article 4 of Council Directive 79/7/EEC of 19 December 1978 on the progressive implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security precluded legislation of a member state which required a proportionally greater contribution period from part-time workers, the vast majority of whom were women, than from full-time workers for the former to qualify, if appropriate, for a contributory retirement pension in an amount reduced in proportion to the part-time nature of their work.”
WLR Daily, 22nd November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Today in 1982, El Vino, a traditional Fleet Street bar, lifted its ban on two women who successfully challenged its policy of not allowing women to stand with male colleagues at the bar.”
The Guardian, 15th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A new system of shared flexible parental leave will allow parents to choose how they share childcare responsibilities in the first year after a child’s birth, the Government has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th November 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
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