Can identical treatment amount to less favourable treatment?

• Author:
• Tarlo Lyons

In Brumfitt -v- Ministry of Defence [2005] IRLR4, a claim of sex discrimination arose when a  female employee was sent along with her male colleague to a training course at which a male trainer directed offensive and obscene remarks to all of the attendees.

The claimant claimed that the language used had been "offensive and humiliating to her as a woman" and on this basis claimed sex discrimination as a result. The employment tribunal rejected her claim on the basis that no ... (157 more words)

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