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Tag: indirect sex discrimination

Discrimination and paternity pay

An Employment Tribunal has rejected a male employee’s claim for direct and indirect sex discrimination following his employer’s (Ford Motor Company) failure to pay enhanced additional paternity pay.  The Tribunal rejected the employee’s argument that the correct comparator was a woman who was on maternity leave after 20 weeks following the birth of a child, […]

Successful appeals

It is well established that a successful appeal against a dismissal overturns the original dismissal, effectively means that the dismissal is extinguished and no unfair dismissal claim can arise out of that dismissal. A similar approach applies in other cases such as sex discrimination.  In the recent case of Little v Richmond Pharmacology Ltd,  the EAT […]