Employer Liability Issues, Equality Act, Race Discrimination

Whistleblowing Job Applicants, Discrimination Outside Employment, and Liability for HR Consultants, Plus a News Roundup - UK HR...

BCLP on 5/29/2025

Our employment law update for May covers a new EAT case on whether job applicants can bring whistleblowing claims, whether a blatant racial insult falls outside the scope of the Equality Act 2010 because it was not made “in...more

UK HR Two Minute Monthly: October 2023

BCLP on 10/31/2023

Our October update includes a significant Supreme Court decision on how to treat historic underpayments of holiday pay, a preliminary tribunal hearing on whether a belief in race equality that opposed critical race theory was...more

UK HR Two-Minute Monthly: July 2023

BCLP on 7/28/2023

Our July update includes cases on the dismissal of a devout Christian dismissed for gross misconduct for social media criticism of pro-LGBTQ+ teaching at schools, allowances that tribunals should make to litigants in person...more

As you were – UK Supreme Court confirms no change to discrimination burden of proof

Hogan Lovells on 7/28/2021

The UK Supreme Court decision in Royal Mail Group Ltd v Efobi confirms that employees must still prove facts from which a tribunal could draw an inference of discrimination before their claim can proceed, despite a change of...more

Employment News: harassment, COVID-19

Hogan Lovells on 2/22/2021

Timed out – reasonable steps defence fails because training stable - An employer can defend a discrimination claim under the Equality Act if it has taken all reasonable steps to prevent employees from committing acts of...more

Challenging Unconscious Bias: Will the UK Adopt Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting?

Littler on 4/8/2019

New research, published in January 2019, into the levels of discrimination faced by ethnic minority applicants in Britain revealed some startling figures, indicating that, despite significant advances in discrimination...more