“A transsexual refused breast enlargement surgery on the NHS is to take her case to the High Court, at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds to the hospital’s budget.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th October 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Opponents of Sharia have long complained that it involves an inherent bias against women and treats them as second-rate citizens.”
The Times, 21st July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Gutridge and others v Sodexo Ltd and another [2009] EWCA Civ 729; [2009] WLR (D) 246
WLR Daily, 17th July 2009
“An employee whose employment contract had been transferred under contracting-out arrangements to another employer could not have any greater rights against the transferee than she had against the transferor by virtue of reg 5 of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981. Although the right to bring proceedings under the Equal Pay Act 1970 was against the transferee, the right was, pursuant to ss 2(4) and 2ZA, time limited to six months after the termination of the employee’s employment with the transferor, which was six months after the date of the transfer.”
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A City lawyer has won the latest round in her legal battle to secure the biggest pay-out on record for sex discrimination.”
The Independent, 18th July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Hovell v Ashford & St Peter’s Hospital NHS Trust [2009] EWCA Civ 670; [2009] WLR (D) 237
“An independent expert report as to equal value was not always necessary before an employment tribunal could determine an equal value pay claim based on the contents of a job evaluation scheme (‘JES’). However, the fact that there was only a small difference in points awarded to a claimant and her male comparators in a JES did not of itself establish that the jobs were of equal value, and a claimant who relied on such a JES rather than an independent expert’s report risked failing to persuade the tribunal that her job was of equal value.”
WLR Daily, 10th July 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“Women solicitors earn 29% less than their male colleagues, the Gazette can reveal this week. The Law Society’s latest salary survey showed only a slight narrowing of the pay gap between the sexes compared with the previous year’s figure of 32%.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 9th July 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Hartlepool Borough Council v Llewellyn and Others
Employment Appeal Tribunal
“Male colleagues of female equal pay claimants were entitled to bring ‘piggyback’ claims using the female claimants as comparators and were able to recover sums equivalent to those awarded to successful comparators by way of arrears.”
The Times, 9th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The government’s equality watchdog, set up to combat all forms of prejudice at work, faces a sex discrimination lawsuit this week from a female member of its own staff.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Hartlepool Borough Council v Llewellyn UKEAT/6/08; [2009] WLR (D) 216
“Male colleagues of female equal pay claimants were entitled to bring ‘piggyback’ claims using the female claimants as comparators and were able to recover sums equivalent to those awarded to the successful comparators by way of arrears. There were obvious conveniences in male contingent claims being included in the proceedings from the start. Even if technically premature in the sense of whether a cause of action had arisen, employment tribunals were empowered under s 2(1A) of the Equal Pay Act 1970 to entertain claims for declaratory relief where a dispute arose in relation to the effect of an equality clause read into a contract under s 1(1) and that would give a sufficient jurisdictional foundation for male contingent claims pending the point at which they might mature into claims for substantial relief.”
WLR Daily, 30th June 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“Dozens of low-paid women workers at a leading public school are celebrating after gaining equal pension rights following a 10-year legal battle.”
The Guardian, 8th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A tribunal has dismissed a cabin crew boss’s claim that she was forced to employ only young, slim, single women to crew private aircraft.”
BBC News, 5th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The criminal justice system is condemned as an institutionally sexist operation that lets down female victims, fails to help women offenders out of a cycle of crime and prevents professionals reaching the top jobs.”
The Guardian, 13th May 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A cabin crew boss was forced to employ only young, slim, single women to crew private aircraft, a tribunal has heard.”
BBC News, 14th April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman who flew halfway around the world for a 13-minute interview then denied the job because Army bosses were determined to hire a man has won £35,000 for ‘hurt feelings’.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The senior council official who was sacked over her department’s handling of the Baby P case is suing for sexual discrimination, it has been claimed.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A secretary was awarded £9,000 in damages after she was branded a ‘bitch’ and ‘whore’ by her employer and made to scrub the male toilets.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th February 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A senior female executive at a City bank headed by the new Trade Minister was a victim of sexism in a department where meetings ended up in strip clubs, an employment tribunal was told yesterday.”
The Times, 11th February 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A female firefighter who who worked only 13 shifts in two years claimed she suffered sexist bullying after she refused to join male colleagues on strike has begun a fresh claim for compensation against her employers.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th February 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Muslim woman responsible for promoting racial and religious diversity within the UK’s largest police force has withdrawn a claim of discrimination.”
The Independent, 14th January 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Bosses at one of Britain’s biggest banks reigned over an ‘institutionally sexist environment’, according to a Muslim woman suing the firm and two senior managers for £16.7m for sexual, religious and racial harassment.”
The Guardian, 7th January 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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