EAT SEX DISCRIMINATION – Marital status
The Employment Judge was wrong to conclude that this case did not engage the protected characteristic in section 8 of marriage. On a reasonable reading of the Claimant’s pleaded case, the facts give rise to an arguable case that it was his married status and his marital difficulties as a married man that led to his dismissal. That composite reason was, on his case, the reason for the Respondent’s treatment of him and that case should have been permitted to proceed.
Citations:
[2017] UKEAT 0115 – 17 – 0510
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Employment
Updated: 02 April 2022; Ref: scu.601908