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The Report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities made a number of recommendations to address racial disparities and inequalities in the UK, including: to advance fairness in the workplace by developing resources and evidence-based approaches readily available to employers to investigate what causes existing ethnicity pay disparities by requiring the publication of a […]

The Court had to decide whether female workers in Asda’s retail stores could compare themselves with men working in separate distribution depots for the purposes of equal pay claims, on the basis they were in “comparative” employment. The Supreme Court concluded that they were in comparative employment for these purposes, even though they are not […]

Ms Tomlinson-Blake, a care support worker employed by Mencap, provided care to two individuals with learning disabilities during overnight ‘sleep-in’ shifts. She had no duties as such, except to have a “listening ear” while asleep and to attend to emergencies. But these were infrequent – there had only been six occasions in 16 months where […]

Mr Smith worked for Pimlico Plumbers Ltd for over five years. He subsequently brought tribunal claims, including for unpaid holiday pay that had accrued over those years. He claimed that although he had been allowed to take, and had taken, holiday, he had not been paid for these. In a Court of Justice of the […]

Mr Page, a practising Christian, was an NED of an NHS trust and also sat as a lay magistrate on family cases involving adoption decisions. He believed it wasn’t “normal” for a child, or in their best interests, to be adopted by a single parent or same-sex couple. After he was reprimanded by the Chief […]