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EAT SEXUAL ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATION/TRANSEXUALISM
HARASSMENT – Conduct
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Appellate Jurisdiction /Reasons /Burns-Barke
An Employment Tribunal accepted that 6 out of 12 complaints of discrimination, and 5 out of 12 of unlawful harassment, were made out. None of the acts complained of, save possibly one, was obviously and intrinsically discriminatory. Each finding relied on the validity of the others. The first and second in the sequence involved accepting that the Claimant had suffered less favourable treatment, to his detriment, where his manager had mentioned to someone who had met the Claimant that he, the Claimant, was gay. In its analysis the Tribunal did not deal at all with a fact which was common ground, and heavily relied on by the employer, namely that the Claimant had himself chosen to make his sexual orientation known when working in a large branch of the employer’s undertaking at Lytham, prior to moving to a branch at Coventry, and that the manager concerned knew this. Nor did the Tribunal express any clear view whether it thought that the manager’s actions sought to undermine the Claimant at work because of his sexuality rather than being clumsy and unnecessary comment, which though not determinative of the issues raised in a discrimination case was highly relevant. It was held that the Tribunal needed to deal with these matters which were central to the issues, and its overall decision could not stand in the light of its failure to do so. The case was remitted to a fresh tribunal.
Langstaff J
[2010] UKEAT 0232 – 09 – 1504, [2010] IRLR 583
Bailii
Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003 3 5 8
Citing:
Cited – Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police v Khan HL 11-Oct-2001
The claimant was a police sergeant. After many years he had not been promoted. He began proceedings for race discrimination. Whilst those were in course, he applied for a post elsewhere. That force wrote to his own requesting a reference. In the . .
Cited – Shamoon v Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary HL 27-Feb-2003
The applicant was a chief inspector of police. She had been prevented from carrying out appraisals of other senior staff, and complained of sex discrimination.
Held: The claimant’s appeal failed. The tribunal had taken a two stage approach. It . .
Cited – Ministry of Defence v Jeremiah CA 1980
The court considered the meaning of ‘detriment’ in discrimination law. Brightman LJ said: ‘I think a detriment exists if a reasonable worker would or might take the view that the duty was in all the circumstances to his detriment.’
Lord Justice . .
Cited – De Souza v Automobile Association CA 19-Dec-1985
The claimant appealed against a finding that there had been no race discrimation in her case. She had overheard a manager refer to her as ‘the wog’. She said that this was sufficient to mean that she suffered a detriment. The employer replied that . .
Cited – Burrett v West Birmingham Health Authority EAT 6-Dec-1993
Female nurses had to wear a cap whereas male nurses did not, though male nurses had to wear a tunic with epaulettes. They claimed discrimination.
Held: A requirement for female to wear a nurse’s cap where no similar rule applied for men, was . .
Cited – Dr J Lynn v Rokeby School Board of Governors London Borough of Newham Secretary of State for Education and Employment EAT 21-Mar-2001
EAT Sex Discrimination – Direct . .
Cited – Driskel v Peninsula Business Services Ltd Michael Huss Anthony Sutcliffe, Peter Done EAT 17-Dec-1999
EAT The claimant said that she had been subjected to crass sexual banter by her senior manager. She refused to take up a post unless he was moved, and when he declined to so, she was dismissed.
The court . .
Cited – Regina v Birmingham City Council ex parte Equal Opportunities Commission HL 1989
At the council’s independent, single-sex grammar schools there were more places available for boys than girls. Consequently the council were obliged to set a higher pass mark for girls than boys in the grammar school entrance examination.
Cited – Richmond Pharmacology v Dhaliwal EAT 12-Feb-2009
EAT HARASSMENT: Purpose
Tribunal was entitled to find that a remark made by an employer to a female employee of Indian ethnic origin referring to the possibility of her being ‘married off in India’ had the . .
Cited – Moyhing and Another v Barts and London NHS Trust EAT 28-Apr-2006
EAT The appellant was a student nurse. He was required to be chaperoned when carrying out intimate procedures on female patients whereas a female student nurse was not required to have a chaperone when carrying . .
Cited – Yeboah v Crofton CA 31-May-2002
The industrial tribunal had made a finding of direct race discrimination. The Employment Appeal Tribunal found the decision perverse, and ordered a rehearing. The applicant appealed that order.
Held: The EAT must be careful not to take . .
Cited – S. Coleman v Attridge Law, Steve Law ECJ 17-Jul-2008
ECJ Social policy – Directive 2000/78/EC – Equal treatment in employment and occupation – Articles 1, 2(1), (2)(a) and (3) and 3(1)(c) – Direct discrimination on grounds of disability – Harassment related to . .
Cited – Sinclair Roche and Temperley and others v Heard and Another EAT 22-Jul-2004
EAT Sex discrimination claim by former partners against the partnership and individual partners: direct discrimination (in both cases) and indirect discrimination (in one) found by ET.
(i) ET must, if . .
Cited – E, Regina (on The Application of) v Governing Body of JFS and Another SC 16-Dec-2009
E complained that his exclusion from admission to the school had been racially discriminatory. The school applied an Orthodox Jewish religious test which did not count him as Jewish because of his family history.
Held: The school’s appeal . .
Cited by:
Appeal from – Grant v HM Land Registry CA 1-Jul-2011
The appellant had succeeded in his claim for sex discrimination arising from his orientation, but the EAT had reversed the decision. He now appealed against the EAT decision. Although he had revealed his sexuality in one post, he had chosen to delay . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Employment, Discrimination
Updated: 02 November 2021; Ref: scu.408521
