The short answer is possibly yes. The question was from a reader but on reading the question it is suggestive that something has taken place outside of the work place. The test for harassment is in the eye of the recipient even if you felt you had not intended the effect to be this. The […]
Tag: Equality Act 2010
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 […]
Reasonable adjustments
Following on from my earlier post on reasonable adjustments, there has been a recent EAT case concerning what is a reasonable adjustment in the workplace. In the case of Dyer v London Ambulance NHS Trust, the employee had a potentially life-threatening reaction to aerosols and perfume and answered 999 calls in a busy control room. […]
Is size a disability?
At present I would argue there is no such provision in the Equality Act 2010 for protection against discrimination on the grounds of size. It is not widely perceived as a disability giving rise to protection or obliging employers to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate their larger work force. A test case is currently before […]
Philosophical belief
The Employment Tribunal has found that the Claimant’s political belief in democratic socialism qualified as a philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. Whilst his mere support in the Labour Party was not enough, his political belief in democratic socialism as enshrined by the Labour Party’s core values was qualified. This was because he had […]
Is a consultant a worker or an employee or neither?
Whilst fact sensitive, the EAT has upheld the Tribunal’s decision in Halawi v WDFG UK Ltd (t/a World Duty Free) and another 2013, that a beauty consultant was not in employment under the Equality Act 2010 s83. The Claimant provided her services through a limited company to an agent who then supplied staff to a […]