Video – Gender Reassignment
Around 1 in 5,000 people may undergo gender reassignment so whilst it may not be something that you encounter every day, it is important to understand the issues involved around employment, discrimination and harassment in order that you can fully support the...Taking care of LGBT employees in the workplace
Lord Brown, who is now a cross-bench peer but was formerly BP’s Chief Executive, was outed as being gay in 2007. He has recently suggested that British companies should be required to publish details of how many lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people they...When does banter become harassment, and can you (as an employer) be held liable?
There has recently been a lot of press coverage of the case of Svetlana Lokhova who was awarded £3.2m in relation to her claims for sexual harassment and gender based discrimination during her time working for a Russian bank. The level of the award doesn’t...Make sure you train staff in relation to fat jokes
In the last 12 months it has become clear that disability discrimination extends to severely obese employees. One of the implications of that is that an employer can become liable for acts of harassment by members of staff towards such an employee. In the last week...Worrying case in respect of mental illness
I would imagine that a case involving an employee suffering from paranoid schizophrenia who stopped taking his medication and sexually assaulted female colleagues would rank high up there on HR’s list of nightmare scenarios. This was a scenario that Aviva faced...
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