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The Times
White Met Officers Win £90,000 at Race Tribunal
THREE white officers who were "hung out to dry" as an example of how non-discriminatory the Metropolitan Police has become have won £90,000 in compensation.
The Met has agreed to pay £25,000 to Detective Constable Tom Hassell, 60, and £32,500 to acting Detective Inspector Paul Whatmore, 39, and Detective Sergeant Colin Lockwood, 55. The men had claimed that they were victims of a "witch-hunt" driven by political correctness in the wake of the Macpherson Report, which accused the police of institutionalised racism.
Journalist: Stewart Tendler, Crime Correspondent, The Times
The Guardian
Briton Sacked For Writing Paris Blog Wins Tribunal Case
Accountancy firm must pay year's salary. Woman denied bringing reputation into disrepute
A British woman sacked for writing a personal blog has won a tribunal against the company that fired her. Catherine Sanderson, 34, was dismissed from her job as a secretary with the Paris branch of British accountancy firm Dixon Wilson last summer after bosses discovered her popular blog.
An employment tribunal in Paris yesterday disagreed with that decision.
"It's fantastic news," she told the Guardian yesterday. "I'm so relieved that good sense has prevailed. I always felt that my dismissal was an unnecessarily harsh action and clearly the prud'hommes [tribunal members] shared my view. The tribunal's decision should send out reassuring signals to the millions of people blogging in France."
Journalist: Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent, The Guardian
The Daily Mail
Pizza Worker Sacked 'Because Poles Are Cheaper' Wins Unfair Dismissal Claim
A pizza shop supervisor who was sacked and replaced by cheap Polish immigrants has scored a victory for British-born workers. Kevin Lewis, 26, won a claim for unfair dismissal after his job at Dominos Pizza take-away was handed to foreign staff who were paid less than him.
Former supervisor Kevin Lewis who was sacked and replaced by cheaper Polish workers won his unfair dismissal case at an employment tribunal. An employment tribunal in Liverpool heard that three Poles and one Iranian were hired to work at the shop in the city, in September 2006 and paid £5.35 an hour. Mr Lewis, who was paid £6 an hour was offered a transfer to another branch that he could not accept because of impossible travel arrangements.
The tribunal upheld four claims from Mr Lewis for unfair dismissal, breach of contract, failure to provide a written contract and failure to provide written notice of dismissal. A hearing has been scheduled for 6th December to award a payment for compensation and loss of earnings.
The Daily Mail
Woman, 20, Wins Landmark Unfair Dismissal Case After Losing Job 'For Being Too Young'
A 20-year-old secretary at a private club has won a landmark discrimination case after claiming she was sacked for being too young for the job. Megan Thomas said she was "humiliated" when her bosses told her she was not old enough to deal with clientele at the £1,000-a-year Eight Members Club in central London.
Using laws introduced to protect older workers from prejudice, she became the first person to win a discrimination case because of her youth. Megan Thomas won her employment tribunal in a landmark age discrimination ruling. An employment tribunal ruled that she should be awarded a payout after being unfairly dismissed on the grounds of her age.
Her lawyers welcomed the decision as a major breakthrough for young workers, but the club warned that it would force employers to retain staff who are found to be too inexperienced to do the job.
Journalist: Tom Kelly
Daily Mirror
Union Discriminated Against Women
A trade union was not justified in indirectly discriminating against a number of female members in resolving gender-based pay inequalities among local authority employees.
The Court of Appeal so held allowing an appeal by the claimants, Sheila Allen and 25 others, from a decision dated July 31, 2007, of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (Mr Justice Elias, President, Mr P. Jacques and Mr S. Yeboah) which: (i) upheld the decision of a Newcastle upon Tyne employment tribunal on June 6, 2006, that the respondent trade union, GMB, had indirectly discriminated against the claimants within sections 12(3) and 1(2)(b) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, as amended by regulation 3 of the Sex Discrimination (Indirect Discrimination and Burden of Proof) Regulations (SI 2001 No 2660) but (ii) allowed the union’s appeal from the tribunal’s decision on the basis that the union’s conduct had been justifiable irrespective of the sex of the claimants within section 1(2)(b)(ii) of the 1975 Act.
The court remitted the matter to the employment tribunal for a remedies hearing.
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