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The Covent Garden HR Buddies is an initiative facilitated by Clarkslegal to offer the London HR community the opportunity to meet with like-minded peers, attend relevant seminars and workshops and boost your knowhow of the issues specific to this sector.
 
It’s free and open to anyone interested in HR. It sets its own agenda, so it can be purely social or facilitate presentations to help prevent HR problems for companies in the London area. So if you want to network face to face contact
buddy@clarkslegal.comClick here for further details about our next HR Buddies event.  

If, alternatively, you wish to network online with other HR professionals, then using the discussion forum below, is your ideal opportunity to do so.

Please feel free to post new queries or questions, and/or reply to ones already posted. All you have to do is register a few details, then you will be ready to post your thoughts.

You can post a new query by selecting the tab "new thread". To reply to a post, select that post and then choose the "reply" tab.

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Kate_Atkinson
99 posts
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1/4/2006

Sex discrimination
Posted: 30 May 06 10:24 AM

This week buddy was asked: One of my employees is suing my business for sex discrimination. The details in the claim form identify her line manager as the main culprit (if the allegations are true). Can he be liable for any award made by the Tribunal?

Kate_Atkinson
99 posts
Joined
1/4/2006

Re: Sex discrimination
Posted: 30 May 06 2:18 PM

Buddy says: The Line Manager is an employee and therefore anything he has done amounting to sex discrimination and in the course of his employment, will be treated by the Tribunal as having been done by the business (his Employer). However, a Tribunal can make the Manager personally liable for an award.

Employer information: In Miles v Gilbank, the Court of Appeal upheld an injury to feelings award of £25,000 made to an employee who had suffered sex discrimination during her pregnancy. A senior manger was held by the Tribunal to as be personally liable for the entire award even though other managers had also discriminated against the employee. The Tribunal had held that the senior manager had deliberately fostered a culture of discrimination against the employee.

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