Dismissal prompted by jealousy is not sex discrimination

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• Pinsent Masons Employment Group

The EAT has held that an employer did not commit an act of sex discrimination by dismissing an employee because of his jealousy on discovering that she was having an affair.

The Appellant was a male solicitor who had an intimate relationship with the Respondent, his personal assistant. He dismissed her after he saw her with another man. The tribunal made a finding of sex discrimination on the basis that the dismissal would not have occurred "but for" the fact that the Respondent ... (179 more words)

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