Five things we learnt in employment law this week (January 21 2019)

Written by: James Rhodes on 21st January 2019

employment law five things 21 January 2019
James Rhodes, Partner at DAC Beachcroft LLP.
  1. The EAT has ruled that a comment by an Employment Judge to a barrister that there was no need to lie, after mishearing the representative, did not amount to bias. (Balakumar v Imperial College of Health Care NHS Trusts)

2. A fellowship in Oxford that was previously female only has been forced to include men to be in line with equality law.

3. An Olympic cyclist has lost a landmark Employment Tribunal claim after a Judge rules that she was not an employee for British Cycling or UK Sport.

4. An Employment Tribunal has heard how a female employee claims that she resigned from her role after her manager made comments of “I can teach you a lot about sex” and “If I was 20 years younger, I would be all over you”. The Tribunal continues.

5. A disabled worker who was not provided with voice recognition software to ease pain relating to her disability has been awarded £45,000 in damages after being successful in her claim for unfair dismissal and failure to implement reasonable adjustments.