January 23, 2024
The Thin Line Between Casual Chats and Professional Risks In light of a recent BBC report unveiling disparaging comments made by Aberdeenshire school teachers about students […]
February 28, 2023
Diversity and inclusion has never been more important in the workplace but sometimes it’s difficult to know where to start to understand D&I. With the launch […]
September 21, 2022
Compared to 10 years ago, we’ve come on leaps and bounds when it comes to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. And that’s amazing. But there’s […]
February 19, 2021
It might be tempting to think that you ‘have that box ticked’ when it comes to having provided training on discriminiation and harassment. But a recent […]
October 3, 2019
The thorny issue of employment status is one that tends to come back before tribunals for rulings again and again. Without doubt there is a need […]
May 8, 2019
A cleaner has won her Employment Tribunal claim for racial harassment after being left “deeply offended and uncomfortable” when racial slurs were used in an equality […]
January 10, 2019
A recent ruling by the EAT concludes that referring to a colleague as a ‘fat ginger pikey’ is not harassment if the colleague in question participated […]
November 27, 2018
A recent government consultation explores the possibility of mandatory ethnicity pay reporting. Following general underlying principles similar to the reporting obligations on the gender pay gap, […]
October 30, 2018
In the recent matter of Saad v Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust (available here) the claimant, Mr Saad, was a trainee surgeon. There were issues surrounding […]
August 15, 2018
A car dealership in Coventry, under the Listers Group, lost a racial discrimination case after employees insisted their racial slurs were just ‘banter.’ At the employment […]