Tag Archives: indirect discrimination
Indirect discrimination – squandering our Brexit freedoms?
The Sunday Telegraph reports concern among Tory MPs that Rishi Sunak is “squandering Brexit Freedoms by approving more EU rules”. The headline refers to new Regulations amending the Equality Act 2010. With its usual calm understatement when dealing with discrimination … Continue reading
Supreme Court ready to rule on Tribunal fees
This is a post with a very short shelf life. By Wednesday afternoon it will be irrelevant. On Wednesday morning the Supreme Court will give its decision in the Judicial Review proceedings challenging the legality of the Employment Tribunal fee … Continue reading
Dear Jeremy, ever heard of the Equality Act?
Is it OK if an employer asks a job candidate questions about their childcare arrangements? The question has come up because in a ‘Dear Jeremy’ article in the Guardian (a sort of workplace agony uncle column) A reader wrote in … Continue reading
Employers must justify requiring Christians to work on a Sunday (and why that wasn’t the headline in the Telegraph)
Next Tuesday the European Court of Human Rights rules on the cases of Eweida, Chaplin, Ladele and McFarlane. The case is likely to be quite complicated and I plan to read it very carefully and give it some serious thought … Continue reading
It’s not about banning crosses!
I’m not going to try to go through all of the media reporting surrounding the religious discrimination cases currently being heard by the European Court of Human Rights and correct the errors and misconceptions that abound. What would be the … Continue reading
A Range of Reasonable Responses 