Employers may be responsible for racial harassment of employees by third parties

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• Hammonds Solicitors

Employers may be responsible, at least indirectly, for the racial harassment of their employees by third parties, according to a recent decision of the EAT in Gravell v London Borough of Bexley.

This represents a potentially significant turnaround in the law. Ever since the House of Lords’ decision in Pearce v Governing Body of Mayfield Secondary School in 2003 it had been thought that employers could not be held liable for the discriminatory acts of third parties such as customers a... (1110 more words)

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