In a new article series, we summarise the employment law developments you need to know about. Each month, we'll look at important recent cases, what's been happening in relation to new legislation, and other interesting developments.
Our first case this month is Leicester City Council v Parmar. The Court of Appeal had to decide whether the employer had discriminated against the employee on the grounds of her race when it transferred her temporarily from her role and subjected her to a groundless disciplinary investigation. Next we look at Wainwright v Cennox plc, where the Employment Appeal Tribunal considered if the employment tribunal had made a mistake by failing to analyse whether acts of disability discrimination amounted to fundamental breaches of contract, entitling the employee to resign and bring claims for constructive dismissal and discriminatory dismissal. Could an employee bring claims for racial harassment where the incidents he relied on had happened several years earlier? This was the question in Logo v Payone GmbH and others, our last case this month.
Mrs Parmar was employed by the Council as a head of service. She was a British national of Indian origin. Her line manager started a disciplinary investigation into her and transferred her to another role on a temporary basis. She was invited to an investigation meeting to discuss two general failures but was not given details of the allegations against her. Neither was she given recordings or...
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