Discrimination: Quantifying injury to feelings awards: lessons from case law

Christopher Hitchins and Emma Phillpot consider what recent awards can tell us about the level of compensation an employer will be liable to pay for injured feelings in discrimination cases ‘Despite the Vento guidelines, it remains difficult to estimate what level of award could be made in any given situation.’ A victim of discrimination based …
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Legal news: Employment update

Katherine Pope rounds up the latest case law and developments affecting employers and their advisers ‘The EAT made clear that a finding of a one-off act of discrimination does not mean that an associated injury-to-feelings award must fall within the lowest Vento band.’ Employee was fairly dismissed for proselytising To what extent can an employee …
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