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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 […]
27th March 2024
A humanitarian aid charity called Human Relief Foundation has been ordered to pay an ex-employee £31,000 following an unfair dismissal complaint. Background to Whistleblowing What is whistleblowing? You are a whistleblower if you are a worker and you report wrongdoing. The wrongdoing you disclose must be in the public interest and therefore must affect others. […]
15th February 2024
The Claimant, David Miller, was employed by The University of Bristol in 2018 as a professor of Political Sociology. The Employment Tribunal found that the Claimants ‘anti-Zionist’ beliefs qualified as ‘philosophical belief and a protected characteristic’. Furthermore, it was found that the Claimant was subject to direct discrimination due to the university’s decision to dismiss […]
31st January 2024
A woman fired from £124,000 a year job after rejecting the advances from her boss wins sex harassment employment tribunal claim. Ms Crabtree, a mother of three, was fired from her £124,000 a year position after she rejected advances from her boss. The senior female executive has won £99,214 in compensation for sexual harassment in […]
19th December 2023
The employment tribunal has ruled that the Claimant’s claim of direct race discrimination, racial harassment and victimisation was successful in D Pile-Grey v Ministry of Defence. The tribunal has not yet published the amount of damages awarded. Mr Pile-Gray was one of the first Rastafarian guardsmen and had a career in the army stretching over […]
28th November 2023
A warehouse worker had his employment terminated after a colleague discovered a video on social media where the Claimant had been accused of ‘grooming’ an underage girl. Mr Cooper, the Claimant’s colleague, carried out a search of the Claimant on social media in January 2021. The search revealed a video and photograph headed: ‘The Hunted […]
30th October 2023
Yes, found the employment tribunal in Miss AB v Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames on 11 September 2023. A trans woman has successfully claimed direct discrimination on the grounds of gender reassignment. The employment tribunal found that deadnaming the worker (AB) amounted to less favourable treatment and was because of the claimant’s protected characteristic. […]
27th September 2023
In the recent case of Parsons v International Forest Products (UK) Limited, the tribunal held that Ms Jowita Parsons (“the Claimant”) claims for unfair dismissal, indirect discrimination and pregnancy and maternity discrimination against International Forest Products (UK) Limited (“the Respondent”) should be dismissed. The Claimant was employed by the Respondent as an import coordinator from […]
30th August 2023
In the recent case of Miss Amanda Fischer v London United Busways Limited [2300846/2021], the tribunal heard claims relating to the use of slurs in the workplace and whether they were gender specific, which were pleaded as gender reassignment discrimination. Miss Amanda Fischer (the Claimant) was engaged by the Respondent (London United Busways Limited) as […]