EAT Race Discrimination – The Claimant Neurologist made eight complaints that she had been directly discriminated against and one complaint that she had been subject to harassment. This was on the grounds of her being a Polish national. All were rejected by the Employment Tribunal. Appeals against this decision on the grounds that the Employment Tribunal had not adopted a two-stage analysis of discrimination were rejected, as were grounds that the Employment Tribunal had insufficiently explained its reasoning, and wrongly relied upon one of the relevant decision makers in her case as having ‘lacked attention to detail’. Observations were however made about the care an Employment Tribunal needs to take before ascribing what are alleged to be acts of discrimination too easily to mistakes or incompetence.
Langstaff J
[2016] UKEAT 0269 – 15 – 2101
Bailii
England and Wales
Employment, Discrimination
Updated: 14 January 2022; Ref: scu.562523