The UK’s equality body has launched an inquiry into racial harassment in higher education institutions, such as universities and higher education colleges (...)
Although calling someone a “fat, ginger pikey” might seem, at first sight, to constitute harassment, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held in Evans v Xactly Corporation Ltd that, as these complaints are highly fact sensitive and context specific, the tribunal was entitled to conclude that it was not in this case (...)
For an employer to be held vicariously liable for the actions of their employees, there has to be sufficient connection between their job and the wrongful conduct. In Wm Morrison Supermarket plc v Various Claimants, the Court of Appeal held that there was no exception to the rule of vicarious liability where the employee’s motive was to cause financial or reputational damage to the employer by causing harm to a third party (...)