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Sex discrimination

Locked	Date	Title	Author	Type	Abstract
	28 Feb 2013	Industrial relations concerns cannot be sole ground for justifying indirect sex discrimination	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In Kenny and ors v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and ors the ECJ has held that an employer's industrial relations concerns cannot constitute the sole basis of justification of indirect...
	1 Feb 2013	Promoting equality: the case for boardroom quotas	Roseanne Russell, Cardiff University	ELA Briefing	Last November, the European Commission published a proposal for a directive on improving gender balance among non-executive directors of listed companies. Its stated aim is to speed progress towards g...
	30 Nov 2012	Advocate General considers justification of indirect sex discrimination	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In Kenny and ors v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and ors the Advocate General has recommended that the ECJ holds that an employer’s industrial relations concerns cannot constitute the ...
	14 Nov 2012	European Commission proposes Directive to increase women’s representation on boards	News form the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	The European Commission has proposed a Directive to increase women’s representation in non-executive board-member positions to 40 per cent in publicly listed companies, with the exception of small and...
	24 Oct 2012	Companies to be required to report on gender balance	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	The Government has published the draft Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Directors' Report) Regulations 2013. Among other things, the Regulations will require quoted companies to report on the ...
	28 May 2012	ELA's response to Gender imbalance in corporate boards in the EU		Consultations
	4 Apr 2012	Court of Appeal: historical pay disparity caused by productivity bonuses was sex discriminatory	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	The Court of Appeal has rejected a perversity challenge  to a tribunal’s finding that local authority bonus schemes set up in the 1970s had ceased to be linked to productivity by the time of equal pay...
	1 Mar 2012	Unfair dismissal qualifying periods	Suzanne McKie and Alice Carse, Devereux Chambers	ELA Briefing	‘Resolving Workplace Disputes: Final Impact Assessment’, published by the government last November, indicates that were a challenge to the extension of the qualifying period for protection for unfa...
	16 Jan 2012	Paid work experience requirement indirectly sex discriminatory	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In Crilly v Ballymagroarty Hazelbank Community Partnership an industrial tribunal in Northern Ireland has held that a requirement for a job candidate to have two years' paid work experience over a fiv...
	1 Dec 2010	Kulikaoskas v Macduff Shellfish & anor	Sarah Gilzean, Equality and Human Rights Commission	ELA Briefing	The case of Kulikaoskas v Macduff Shellfish & anor raises the interesting question of whether a man can bring a sex discrimination claim on the basis that he has been treated less favourably ...