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Morgan v Buckinghamshire Council [2022]

Decision number:EAT.160   Legal body: Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) brought a claim relating to disability discrimination arising from her diagnosis with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Dyslexia. The claimant appealed this stating that the respondent could not have reasonably formed the view that she had breached professional boundaries. The EAT dismissed that st...
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Dismissal Discrimination Policies and Procedures
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Element v Tesco Stores Ltd [2022]

Decision number:EAT.165   Legal body: Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) The claimants were store-based employees who are predominately female. The basis of the claim related to equal pay and parity with those who worked in the distribution centres of the respondent who were mostly male. The claimants made a claim stating that the jobs should be rated as equivalent a...
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Discrimination
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Bathgate v Technip UK Ltd [2022]

Decision number:EAT.155   Legal body: Employment Appeal Tribunal (UKEAT) ad settled any claim in relation to age discrimination when he signed a redundancy agreement which waived his right to bring various claims, including age discrimination. The Tribunal, at first instance, found that he had settled any claim when the redundancy agreement had been signed. The claima...
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Anonymised v Department of Justice [2022]

Case reference: [2022].NIIT.18174   Legal body: Northern Ireland Industrial Tribunal (NIIT) ructive dismissal as well as disability discrimination. On the point of disability discrimination, the Tribunal found that the claimant had failed to establish that the respondent knew or ought to have known that she was disabled. The claimant suggested that it started from 2017 and the serious ass...
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Dismissal Discrimination
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University of Dundee v Chakraborty [2022]

Case reference: EAT.150   Legal body: Employment Appeal Tribunal (UKEAT) d upon matters of harassment, bullying, discrimination and racial abuse. The grievance was dealt with under the respondent’s Dignity at Work and Study Policy. As a result, an independent member of academic staff was appointed to investigate the grievance and write a report. This report was complete...
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Discipline Discrimination
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Wei v Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce [2020]

Case reference: 2203667/2020   Legal body: Employment Tribunal (ET) ions were also made in relation to race discrimination and how the claimant was the only mainland Chinese women in the team. The claimant stated that one of her managers, Mr Lee, treated her as inferior as she was from Mainland China whereas he was originally from Hong Kong. Mr Lee did say he assum...
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Dismissal Discrimination
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Quinn v Sense Scotland [2022]

Decision number:4111971/2021   Legal body: Employment Tribunal (ET) ut in the Equality Act 2010 (Disability Discrimination Act 1995 in Northern Ireland). The claimant’s submission was that her original COVID positive test and the Long COVID should be treated as the same condition. She also stated that it had a substantial adverse effect on her day-to-day activities...
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Discrimination Coronavirus/Covid-19
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McClung v Doosan Babcock Ltd & Others [2022]

Decision number:4110538/2019   Legal body: Employment Tribunal (ET) service requirements. He also brought a discrimination claim on the grounds of religion or belief under the Equality Act 2010 citing that his support for Rangers Football Club was such an intrinsic part of his life. In evidence, it was found that he had been a supporter for around 42 years, he is ...
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Discrimination
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Al-Jibouri v ZLX Limited [2022]

Decision number:NIIT.29493/21   Legal body: Northern Ireland Industrial Tribunal (NIIT) ientist. As a result, the claim of race discrimination was not allowed to continue. The Tribunal outlined that they have to examine whether it is just and equitable to extend time. They found that the likely reason that race discrimination as included, only at the point of ET1, was to allow for a...
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Discrimination Pay
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Dhungana v Rai [2022]

Decision number:EAT.100   Legal body: Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) ed an extension of time when it came to discrimination claims that were also brought. As a result, the redundancy claim was remitted back to the Tribunal for consideration. Practical Lessons This case demonstrates the extent to which the Tribunal should consider the merits of the case at a summary...
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Tribunal Practice Procedures and Jurisdictional Issues