Welcome to this week's Employment Law Coffee Break in which we look at the latest legal and practical developments impacting UK employers.
#BreakTheBias: tribunal highlights the cost of getting it wrong
Tuesday 8 March was International Women's Day where everyone was invited to #BreakTheBias and imagine a "gender equal world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination"; one which is "diverse, equitable and inclusive" and "where women's careers thrive and their achievements are celebrated". We are seeing many employers taking increasingly progressive steps as they seek to create workplaces reflecting these aims, but unfortunately there continue to be many instances where behaviours still fall short.
In a recent remedy judgment, an Employment Tribunal awarded a claimant over 2 million for equal pay, sex discrimination and victimisation. It also ordered the respondent to carry out an equal pay audit in respect of its "opaque" pay system. An equal pay audit is required by statute where there is equal pay discrimination, unless the respondent can bring itself within any of the listed exemptions (which the respondent was unable to do). While the respondent had sought to take its own remedial actions by the time of the remedy hearing in relation to equal pay, the tribunal did not consider that these went far enough to prevent it from ordering an audit to be conducted across the workforce to explain the respondent's "approach to equal value" and enable a "a proper comparison to...
Ryan Amacher, who played role in bid to damage campaign, has also made antisemitic and racist posts on social media An influencer who played a key role in hoax claims that James Talarico was in a ...