Can an employer discriminate against a nationality?

A case currently at Employment Tribunal has raised the question of what the boundaries of ‘race discrimination’ under the Race Relations Act 1976 are.

Nolan Victory is claiming his managers at Oxfordshire Racial Equality council, who were all black, refused to give him a pay rise because he was the “wrong kind of black” – i.e., they were black African and he is black Caribbean.

One of the managers accused, Mr Tolani, has called it the “most ridiculous c... (475 more words)

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