A practical day to provide you with the knowledge and awareness of discrimination, the forms it takes and the consequences. All delegates will receive a certificate of training which will assist an employer in showing that that have an equality policy and have trained staff on the subject which will assist with the statutory defence. […]
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Discrimination against job applicants
The European Court has heard the first case concerning whether the Equal Treatment Directive applied to an applicant who made an application not because he wanted a role but rather to seek compensation for discrimination. The applicant applied for a trainee position as a graduate when he was neither. His application was rejected at the first round and […]
Redundancy criteria and discrimination
In a recent ECJ case, the Claimant was a legal adviser in a Latvian Government post who took parental leave from November 2007 to May 2009. Before she returned the department was reorganised and a redundancy situation occurred. The employer needed to select one of the four employees for redundancy. It devised criteria based on […]