A Polish employee succeeds in a direct race discrimination claim against his employer and a colleague after an ET finds the colleague told him in "essence" that his daughter or his family should go back to Poland.
| Published: 29 January 2018
Carphone Warehouse has been fined £400,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office, after one of their computer systems was compromised because of a cyber-attack which allowed employee data to be accessed.
| Published: 25 January 2018
Acas Chair, Sir Brendan Barber, has predicted that pay, productivity, tribunal claims and employee voice in boardrooms will be key workplace issues in 2018.
| Published: 24 January 2018
The EAT hold that the correct comparator in a race discrimination claim alleging use of the term ‘coconut’ (black on the outside, white on the inside) is the treatment of a black employee behaving as a white person.
| Published: 23 January 2018
The European Court of Human Rights hold that covert video surveillance used to monitor supermarket cashiers after stock losses were discovered breached their right to privacy under Article 8 of the EU Convention.
| Published: 22 January 2018
The CIPD have put together a hub to support the HR profession in changing workplace cultures for the better with some practical support around key areas to tackle sexual harassment and bullying at work.
| Published: 18 January 2018
Businesses failing to comply with gender pay gap reporting regulations could face unlimited fines and convictions, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has warned as it published its enforcement strategy.
| Published: 17 January 2018
The Ministry of Justice has published Quarterly Statistics, July to September 2017, giving the first indication of the situation after ET fees were abolished in July 2017 and which show that single ET claims increased by 64%.
| Published: 16 January 2018
In Chief Constable of Norfolk v Coffey, C suffers from mild hearing loss with tinnitus. There is a standard for hearing loss in the police service, but guidance provides if loss is borderline, a practical test to assess functional disability should take place.
| Published: 15 January 2018
