In the recent case of Dobson v Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, the respondent changed its work schedules, requiring the claimant, a community nurse and mother of three (with two disabled children), to work different days and weekends. The claimant couldn’t...
UK discrimination laws identify nine specific characteristics that it’s illegal to discriminate on the grounds of: age, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy, disability, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. It’s...
In the UK, part-time workers have a number of legal protections to make sure they are treated fairly and not less favourably than comparable full-time workers: The Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 is the key piece of...
In the recent case of Borg-Neal v Lloyds Bank Plc, the claimant attended a training session on race discrimination awareness for line managers. He asked a question during the session about how to handle a situation where the ‘N-word’ was used. He did not say ‘the N...
In the recent case of Ahmed v Nat West an employee who was sacked after running several business websites, including sex work websites, some of which he registered to the office where he worked for the respondent was found to have been unfairly dismissed. In a...
The landmark case of Forstater v CGD Europe Limited was notable as the first case in which the UK courts confirmed that gender critical views (the belief that sex is biological and immutable) can form a protected philosophical belief under Equality Act 2010. Ms...
