Religious Discrimination: Weighing workers’ rights against operational needs

Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP | Employment Law Journal | September 2011 #123
Preventing a Muslim employee from leaving a site he was guarding to attend Friday prayers has been found to be a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, explains Bob Fahy ‘In Cherfi v G4S Security Service Ltd, the EAT did not seem to hold the tribunal to a particularly rigorous standard when it came …

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Equality Act: Duties on public bodies

Fieldfisher | Employment Law Journal | April 2011 #119
Clare Parkinson examines the new single public sector equality duty in light of a recent finding that HMRC’s treatment of a disabled woman was discriminatory ‘Section 149 of the Equality Act widens the scope of the existing public sector equality general duties by requiring public authorities to have due regard to the need to “advance” …

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