Sex discrimination Summary Direct discrimination is unlawful even if the employer it trying to be ‘chivalrous’. However in limited cases positive discriminatio...
Race and religion or belief Summary Race and religion have been combined on this page because they tend to be less important in an occupational health (OH) setting than...
Is a one-off decision subject to the reasonable adjustment duty? The Court of Appeal held that a one-off decision can sometimes be a ‘provision, criteron or practice’ (PCP) subject to the reaso...
Indirect discrimination Indirect discrimination extends protection beyond the ‘formal’ equality of treatment tackled by direct discrimination. It can apply where an...
Indirect discrimination: justification should not focus on claimant The EAT held the tribunal wrongly focused on whether an exception for the individual was justified, in an indirect discrimination claim. The...
Sex discrimination: minimum height for police trainees The EU Court of Justice (ECJ) indicated that a 1.7m minimum height for entrants to Greek police schools was unlikely to be justified. In Ypo...
EAT considers pay compensation for disabled employee The EAT went some way – but not that far – in considering Equality Act issues on redeployment and pay while off sick. In West v Royal Bank o...
Selection tests Diana Kloss reviews a decision that the way an employer conducted a psychometric test as part of its recruitment process was unlawful disabi...
Supreme Court decision on indirect discrimination In Essop, the Supreme Court restored what was previously understood to be the law on indirect discrimination. The claimant need not establis...
New cases on associative discrimination New cases have considered indirect discrimination claims by someone without the protected characteristic, associative victimisation, and all...
