Race discrimination against British teacher employed in Spanish school

• Author:
• Geraldine Elliott

The Court of Appeal has recently decided (Spicer -v- Government of Spain) that paying a British teacher at a Spanish school in London less than Spanish civil servants who were seconded from Spain to work at the school was indirect race discrimination.

In reaching its decision, the Court of Appeal decided that the tribunal was correct to find that the comparator should be the Spanish civil servants. This was contrary to the finding of the Employment Appeals Tribunal which held that there was... (74 more words)

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