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	16 Jul 2008	Union discriminated against equal pay claimants	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Allen and ors v GMB the Court of Appeal has held that the GMB union indirectly discriminated against some of its female members who had potential equal pay claims against a local authority.
	25 Jul 2007	EAT issues first penalty notice for failure to inform and consult		In Amicus v MacMillan Publishers Ltd, the EAT has issued the first penalty notice for an employer’s failure to comply with the provisions of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2...
	14 Aug 2009	Motive irrelevant to establishing discrimination when treatment is on the ground of race	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Amnesty International v Ahmed, the EAT has upheld a tribunal's decision that A had suffered direct discrimination when she had not been offered a promotion on the basis that her ethnicity made it d...
	21 Jun 2012	Annual leave coinciding with sickness can be taken later regardless of when sickness arose	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Asociación Nacional de Grandes Empresas de Distribución (ANGED) v Federación de Asociaciones Sindicales and ors the ECJ has held that the EU Working Time Directive (No.2003/88) requires that a work...
	26 Apr 2013	Discrimination could be inferred from shareholder’s discriminatory comments	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Asociatia ACCEPT v Consiliul National pentru Combaterea Discriminarii the ECJ has held that homophobic comments made in public by a person strongly associated with an employer, suggesting the exist...
	18 Jan 2008	Events after alleged discrimination not evidence of claimant’s ‘disability’	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In assessing the likelihood of an employee’s impairment recurring – and thus potentially qualifying as ‘long-term’ for the purposes of the definition of ‘disability’ contained in the Disability Discri...
	4 Apr 2012	EAT makes reference to ECJ on application of derogation from the Working Time Directive	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Associated British Ports v Bridgeman the EAT has asked the ECJ to clarify the application of Article 17(3)(c) of the Working Time Directive (No.2003/88), which permits derogation from Directive rig...
	1 Mar 2011	Gender considerations should not be used to set insurance premiums or benefits	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Association Belge des Consommateurs Test-Achats ASBL and ors the European Court of Justice has held that insurers cannot take gender into account as a risk factor when setting premiums and payouts ...
	16 Feb 2012	Strike balloting requirements allow union officials to exercise their own judgement	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Balfour Beatty Engineering Services Limited v Unite the Union the High Court has refused BBES Ltd’s application for an interim injunction to prevent strike action. The Court held that Unite had don...
	25 Jul 2007	Security vetting outcome - disclosure in discrimination cases		In Barracks v Coles and anor, the Court of Appeal has clarified the correct approach for tribunals to take when a party refuses to disclose relevant information in a case due to a conflicting legal ob...