UK, Race Discrimination, Hiring & Firing

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

US: no more affirmative action on race in admissions

Ius Laboris on 8/3/2023

UK employers should not overestimate the importance of the US Supreme Court’s recent decision on race-based affirmative action. The US Supreme Court has ruled that race-based college admission programmes are unlawful. As...more

UK HR two-minute monthly: April 2023

BCLP on 4/26/2023

Our April update includes cases on religious belief discrimination in the education sector, with a school chaplain preaching to pupils his views on same-sex marriage, a case considering whether the potentially disruptive...more

Employment News: discrimination, strikes, Queen's speech

Hogan Lovells on 10/21/2019

Coming clean – false reason for dismissal shifted burden of proof - In Base Childrenswear Ltd v Otshudi the Court of Appeal confirmed that giving a false reason for dismissal and persisting with it was enough to shift the...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

Employment Status and Mutuality of Obligations

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 7/1/2016

In Secretary of State for Justice v Windle and Arada [2016] EWCA Civ 459, the Court of Appeal considered whether the absence of mutuality of obligation between assignments was relevant in determining an individual’s...more

Five Grievances Don’t Make A (Dismissal) Right

Orrick - Employment Law and Litigation on 7/9/2013

A recent case in the UK Employment Appeals Tribunal Woodhouse v. West North West Homes Leeds Limited UK EAT/0007(12) has looked at whether it is possible to fairly dismiss an employee who has raised repeated grievances, on...more

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