Fox v Ocean City Recruitment Ltd: EAT 13 Jun 2011

EAT VICTIMISATION DISCRIMINATION – Protected disclosure
SEX DISCRIMINATION – S4(2) defence
i) Employment Tribunal misdirected itself as to the defence of having taken reasonable steps to prevent discriminatory conduct by employees. It relied on steps taken after the acts of discrimination, rather than before.
ii) Employment Tribunal gave no reasons for awarding a 10% uplift for failure to follow statutory disciplinary procedures notwithstanding that the failure was complete.
iii) The Employment Tribunal failed to give adequate reasons for awarding the sum of andpound;1,500 as damages for injury to feelings.

Judges:

Serota QC J

Citations:

[2011] UKEAT 0035 – 11 – 1306

Links:

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Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Employment

Updated: 17 September 2022; Ref: scu.442769