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Tag Archives: Sex Discrimination
Industrial relations concerns cannot on their own justify sex discrimination
In Kenny and ors –v- Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and ors the ECJ has held that the industrial relations concerns of an employer cannot be the sole basis in which it seeks to justify indirect sex discrimination … Continue reading
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Tagged discrimination claims, employment, equal pay claims, gender equality, Sex Discrimination
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Reporting on gender balance
The Government has recently published new regulations requiring quoted companies to report on gender balance and diversity, at board and management level and companies as a whole. At the same time EU commissioners have postponed plans to impose quotas for … Continue reading
Obligatory Equal Pay Audits proposed for employers who lose equal pay claims
Employers who lose sex discrimination cases will be required to carry out equal pay audits across their workforce and may also be ordered by tribunals to publish a comparison of men and women’s earnings across their entire business. These proposals … Continue reading
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Tagged advice for employers, Devonshires, discrimination claims, employment, Employment Appeal Tribunal, employment law, employment tribunal, Equalities Minister, Equality Act 2010, gender equality, Government, Home Secretary, Lynne Featherstone, Sex Discrimination, Theresa May, UK employment, UK employment law
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How to treat Mr or Mrs Blogs
Where an employer treats a married person less favourably because of whom they are married to, can this amount to unlawful discrimination? Yes, was the answer given by the EAT in the recent case of Dunn v Institute of Cemetery … Continue reading
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Tagged advice for employers, Devonshires, discrimination claims, EAT, employment, Employment Appeal Tribunal, employment law, employment tribunal, Equality Act 2010, Government, marriage discrimination, Sex Discrimination, Sex Discrimination Act 1975, UK employment, UK employment law, unfair dismissal
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