Issue 711

High unemployment rates for BAME workers

According to analysis by the TUC, the unemployment rate for black and minority ethnic workers rose at more than twice the rate than it did for white workers between the end of 2019 and the end of 2020 (...).

Difference in treatment

In order to decide claims of race discrimination, tribunals have to focus on whether the claimant’s race was a factor in the way they were treated. In Lasila v Apcoa Parking (UK) Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that Mr Lasila had not been discriminated against because of race in the way that he was treated when the company car he was driving developed a problem, compared with the way the driver of another company car was treated (...).

Affirming a contract

In order to successfully claim constructive unfair dismissal, claimants have to show that there has been a fundamental breach of their contract and that they did not affirm (or waive) that breach. In Gordon v J&D Pierce (Contracts) Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that lodging a grievance does not amount to affirmation of a breach of contract (...).