Tag Archives: indirect discrimination

Supreme Court ready to rule on Tribunal fees

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Darren Newman

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 →

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Dear Jeremy, ever heard of the Equality Act?

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Darren Newman

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 →

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Employers must justify requiring Christians to work on a Sunday (and why that wasn’t the headline in the Telegraph)

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Darren Newman

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 →

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It’s not about banning crosses!

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Darren Newman

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 →

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