Ryan v South West Ambulance Services NHS Trust [2020]

Posted In: Case Law
  • Decision Number
    UKEAT/02113/VP
  • Legal Body
    Employment Appeal Tribunal (UKEAT)
  • Type of Claim / Jurisdiction
    Redundancy, Discrimination and Equality
Issues covered: Age Discrimination; Redundancy Pool

The claimant worked for the respondent since 1991.  She continues to be employed by the respondent as a Learning and Development Officer.   She was born in 1950 and was 66/67 at the time of the matters complained of.

Between 2013 and 2016 the claimant was employed as the Respondent’s Education Business Manager on a managerial grade (Band 8A). The issue arose with the respondent’s ‘Talent Pool’ that had been established.   The respondent had a provision, criterion or practice of only promoting managerial staff who were in that Talent Pool.   The claimant’s case was that she was being indirectly discriminated against on the basis of age as a result of not

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This article is correct at 20/10/2020
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