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ETs on the rise
...ce. Companies need to avoid discrimination at all stages of employment recruitment, the provision of benefits, promotion and dismissal. Currently, discrimination laws preclude employers from treating workers differently for reasons that are based on their sex, marital status, race, disabilities, sexual orientation, religion or belief and age. Our in-house training course on equality and diversity will ensure that you are up to date with all relevant legislation related to these complex issues. workplace law human resources Equality | Diversity | Consultancy editorial Comment from the Editor ....
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2010
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Changes to Workplace Law Magazine
...ity Bill. Its overriding purpose is to bring together an enormous plethora of laws, introduced piecemeal over the past 40 years, covering a range of discrimination relating to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy / maternity, race, religion / belief, sex and sexual orientation. What the proposed Bill will or will not achieve is a matter of much debate, not least from Workplace Law Network members who are horrified that the Bill includes the provision to expand the way "positive action can be used so that employers can pick someone for a job from an underrepre...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2009
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Disability access: is it becoming clear yet?
... A TALL STORY? Can size discrimination ever be justified? Workplace Law Magazine focuses on some unusual cases in this grey area of the law LEGAL UPDATE 24 CASE LAW Legal experts offer their views on the implications of recent case law for employers 26 TECHNICAL UPDATE In-depth legal guidance on: sexual orientation discrimination, age discrimination, and discrimination in recruitment 31 CLINIC Workplace Law's panel of solicitors and consultants advise readers on their legal queries P24 34 ANALYSIS The impact of workplace design on employee stress, absenteeism and performance workplacelaw 3 ...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2005
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Business as usual? London bomb blasts
... A TALL STORY? Can size discrimination ever be justified? Workplace Law Magazine focuses on some unusual cases in this grey area of the law LEGAL UPDATE 24 CASE LAW Legal experts offer their views on the implications of recent case law for employers 26 TECHNICAL UPDATE In-depth legal guidance on: sexual orientation discrimination, age discrimination, and discrimination in recruitment 31 CLINIC Workplace Law's panel of solicitors and consultants advise readers on their legal queries P24 34 ANALYSIS The impact of workplace design on employee stress, absenteeism and performance workplacelaw 3 ...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2005
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Internships – Are you breaking the law?
...oyees to request time off to train will not be introduced for employers with less than 250 people in April 2011 as had been expected. The right for employees to request time off for training has applied to employers with 250 or more employees since 6 April 2010. characteristic. For example, a heterosexual female employee who overheard derogatory comments directed at a gay male colleague may be able to bring a claim of harassment herself if the comments created an offensive environment for her. Importantly, under the Act, employers are liable for any unlawful discrimination or harassment by their emp...
Magazine issue | 3 May 2011
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Dealing with bogus claimants
... suspension was on the grounds that he had raised these concerns. CASES IN bRIEF bullied worker awarded £150,000 payout Nanette Bowen had been employed at the Prince Phillip Hospital for 28 years, working her way up the ranks from porter to information manager. In 2000, her boss, Eric Lewis, made sexual innuendos towards her and was regularly aggressive when challenged. The harassment caused Mrs Bowen stress and panic attacks. In February 2009, Swansea County Court found Carmarthenshire NHS Trust liable. Mrs Bowen has now been awarded £150,000 in compensation. 25780 The Tribunal found that Mr Ni...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2010
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"We don't serve wheelchairs"
...liefs offer the right to discriminate? McClintock is a practising Christian and a Justice of the Peace. He had been a member of the Family Panel and so was involved in the placing of children. As a result of the Civil Partnership Act 2004, same sex couples are to be treated in the same way as heterosexual couples. Mr McClintock sought an exception from his duty to officiate in such cases. Richard Leiper, Barrister, 11KBW reports the details of the case. The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) had to consider first the meaning of "religion or belief". At the time, the definition was "any religion, reli...
Magazine issue | 1 Jan 2008
