Sahota v The Home Office and Another: EAT 15 Dec 2009

EAT SEX DISCRIMINATION – Pregnancy and discrimination
SEX DISCRIMINATION – Detriment
HARASSMENT
Sex discrimination/harassment claims by claimant undergoing IVF treatment – Held that the Tribunal was entitled to find that the acts complained of either, in some cases, did not amount to a detriment/harassment or, in the remainder, even if they arose out of it or of circumstances connected with it were not done on the grounds that the Claimant was undergoing IVF treatment – Discussion of extent to which discrimination on the ground that an employee is receiving IVF treatment is to be regarded as discrimination on the ground of her sex or of pregnancy – London Borough of Greenwich v Robinson (unreported; EAT/745/94) and Mayr v Backerei und Konditorei Gerhard Flockner OHG [2008] IRLR 387.

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[2009] UKEAT 0342 – 09 – 1512

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Updated: 11 August 2022; Ref: scu.392545