The Advocate General has recently given an opinion that the employer who banned a hijab when in contact with clients acted unlawfully and had committed an act of direct discrimination. The case was a French case brought before the recent issues over dress in France. The employee was a female engineer. She was a practising […]
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Having your cake?
You may have read about the Northern Irish gay cake row which has been settled by the County court in Northern Ireland recently. A bakery was sued after it cancelled an order for a cake with an image and slogan “Support Gay Marriage” placed by a homosexual customer. The customer brought the case with the […]
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, […]
Unlawful discrimination in the provision of services
The widely reported case of the Christian hotel owners who refused a double room to civil partners, as they had a policy to only provide these rooms to heterosexual married couples, has hit the headlines again following the decision of the Supreme Court last week. This case has received much media attention partly because it […]