Wednesday, February 17, 2021
As a rule, an employer will be liable for the discriminatory acts of its employees towards each other
unless it has taken all reasonable steps to prevent them doing that sort of thing (section 109(4) Equality Act, often known as the “statutory defence”).
Allay (UK) Limited –v- Gehlen is one of really not very many cases at all to lift the bonnet on that statutory defence and peer at how the mechanics of it actually work. It is a very clear warning to employers that it is not enough to have done some anti-harassment training at some point in the past and hope for the best thereafter.
Thursday, January 7, 2021
So here we are all again and, says the Government’s latest guidance, able to leave home to work only where it is “
unreasonable for you to do your job from home“. This is the umpteenth permutation of the same underlying message about working from home if you can, and was almost certainly meant to say where it is “
not reasonably practicable” for you to work from home, or where you “
cannot reasonably be expected” to do so, rather than where your doing so is unreasonable in itself, which is basically a nonsense. Is this a deliberate dilution or softening of robust earlier messages about WFH unless “