Take two: dismissing pregnant workers

There have been two recent decisions on dismissing pregnant workers. The CJEU found that a collective redundancy is an exceptional situation justifying dismissal, while the EAT decided that an employer did not have to re-visit a decision to dismiss when it found out that an employee was pregnant.

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Informal approach – reasonable adjustments duty applied to long working hours

The Court of Appeal decision in United First Partners Research v Carreras is a useful reminder that employers may be under a duty to adjust long working hours, even if they are not imposed as a formal requirement.

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Retirement provision in LTIP not age discrimination

A provision in a long term incentive plan which gave employees favourable treatment if they left the business aged 55 or over was justified and not age discrimination according to the Court of Appeal in Air Products PLC v Cockram.

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