The Border Force and Immigration Enforcement agency has scored worst out of all government agencies and departments in a survey of personal experience of discrimination at work. One in five employees agreed with the statement …
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The Scottish government has had to pay former First Minister Alex Salmond £512k in legal costs following a badly handled investigation into allegations of sexual harassment. The Scottish government had earlier admitted that it …
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The latest Ministry of Justice figures for employment claims – for the period January to March 2019 – show a continuation of the steady increase in the number of employment tribunal claims compared to the …
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Trade unions, women’s rights organisations and charities have launched a joint campaign to persuade the government to introduce a new law to make employers responsible for protecting their staff from sexual harassment at work. ‘This …
A deputy care home manager accused of verbally abusing a vulnerable resident has won her case for unfair dismissal and awarded £11,000. Carol Streener (CS), a deputy manager who had worked for Barchester Healthcare at …
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A Tribunal has awarded a crematorium worker £6,846 in compensation for religious discrimination and harassment after a colleague said white people “wouldn’t want to be buried next to a Muslim”. It ruled that an investigation …
