The Year Ahead: Fourteen predictions for 2014

Sarah Parkin rounds up the key legal developments and cases that employment law practitioners need to be aware of next year ‘A particular issue likely to be of concern to employers is whether they will face discrimination claims if they pay enhanced maternity pay where someone is on maternity leave but do not pay the …
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Victimisation: Back to square one

In its second ruling on the point in two months, the EAT has decided that post-termination victimisation remains unlawful after all, reports Hannah White ‘The EAT took further courage in its conclusion from the fact that, according to the ECJ in Coote, the UK is obliged under European law to provide protection from victimisation, including …
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Book Review: Equality law past and present

Charles Wynn-Evans reviews the new edition of Monaghan on Equality Law Monaghan on Equality Law Karon Monaghan 2nd ed, 2013, Oxford University Press £145 ISBN 978 0 19 960323 7 The Equality Act 2010 (the Act) was intended not only to reform and restate domestic anti-discrimination legislation but also to harmonise and, as the White …
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Equality Act: No protection against post-employment victimisation

An EAT ruling has highlighted that the UK’s discrimination legislation is at odds with EU law, reports Olivia Toulson It is doubtful that Parliament ever intended to exclude post-employment victimisation and it is clear that EU law requires employees to have protection against such treatment. In Rowstock Ltd v Jessemey [2013], the Employment Appeal Tribunal …
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