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18th December 2024
A former vice-president of Goldman Sachs’ London compliance team has won a sex discrimination claim after being dismissed following his paternity leave. Jon Reeves, who joined the bank in 2007, was let go in September 2022 after taking six months of paternity leave from November 2021 to May 2022. Sachs argued the decision was based […]
26th November 2024
An Employment Tribunal has ruled that Bolt drivers are legally classified as ‘workers’. The ruling means that 15,000 drivers could be eligible for compensation of up to £200 million and more than 100,000 drivers now have a right to minimum wage, holiday and whistleblowing protection. Bolt, an Estonian ride-hailing app which engages over 100,000 drivers […]
29th October 2024
An Employment Tribunal has ruled that the National Opera Studio, the studio responsible for training prominent classical artists including Alfie Boe and Wynne Evans, unfairly dismissed a conductor in the wake of complaints about his use of pronouns towards a young artist. Following a report from a student that his behaviour was “intimidating, bullying and […]
25th September 2024
The UK Supreme Court has unanimously ruled to restore an injunction granted by the High Court that prevents Tesco from terminating and re-engaging workers to end their right to ‘retained pay’ benefit. Background In 2007, Tesco reorganised its distribution centres, resulting in a number of sites closing. To avoid losing experienced employees to redundancy, Tesco […]
28th August 2024
A care assistant who failed to disclose that she was charged with murder has won an unfair dismissal case at the Edinburgh Employment Tribunal. The tribunal found that her employer, Care UK Community Partnerships, failed to properly assess the risk of reputational damage before terminating her employment. In October 2022, Jacqueline Difolco, who worked at […]
24th July 2024
The claimant (Orwin) began working as an ICT project officer for the East Riding of Yorkshire Council in 2018. In April 2022, Caroline Lacey, then chief executive of the local authority, emailed all employees asking them to add their pronouns and a new image to their email signature relating to its corporate priorities. Having communicated […]
27th June 2024
A disabled teacher who received a four-day “career-changing ultimatum” during a forced school transfer has been awarded £61k by an employment tribunal. Allison Shearer, an English support teacher for Clydesdale Support Base in Carluke, refused to move to Kear Secondary School due to extreme anxiety believing it was inevitable that she would experience assault there […]
30th May 2024
A claim for direct race discrimination has failed after a Japanese language and translation specialist accused her line manager of harassment, bullying and unfair treatment on the basis of her ethnicity. In September 2021, University of London Professor Nana Sato-Rossberg alleged that her boss, Provost Claire Ozanne, raised the subject of Japanese food and that […]
24th April 2024
At an internal staff awards ceremony, a male, Muslim teaching assistant was awarded the Christmas Grinch Prize. He later brought an employment tribunal claim against the school for religious discrimination. Salah Toughfar claimed he was “upset and distressed” after being compared to a character with such negative connotations, despite him being unaware of the Christmas-associated […]