The effect of state immunity and diplomatic immunity on an employment tribunal's jurisdiction to hear claims by those employed by embassies or diplomats was examined by the Supreme Court in two separate judgments. Nicholas Lakeland explains the issues that arose.
Employers who rely on multiple choice testing for candidates need to take heed of a case concerning the indirect discrimination of a job candidate who suffered from Asperger syndrome.
When the producer of a Blackpool tribute show to music greats sought an injunction to stop a Michael Jackson tribute act from working for a Blackpool competitor, could the King of Pop beat it?
The conflict between religious attire and employers’ dress codes has proved a fertile area of case law and the Courts are frequently asked to consider whether a ban or restriction on an item of religious dress is discriminatory.
Discrimination is often thought of as one of those ‘easy to spot but difficult to define things’ – you know it when you see it, because, well, you just know.
Despite making progress in closing the gender pay gap in recent years the Government acknowledges much more needs to be done if it is to end the gender pay gap “in a generation.”
The European Court of Human Rights (the “ECHR”) have ruled that an employer had the right to monitor an employee’s Yahoo messenger account which had been set up for professional use
