Posts from Howard Kennedy

Religious discrimination: ECJ’s approach to be unveiled …

After the controversial opinion given by Advocate-General Kokott in Achbita v G4S concerning an employer’s ban on staff wearing religious or political symbols (which AG Kokott considered was lawful) Advocate-General Sharpston has just delivered a diametrically opposed opinion in Bougnaoui v Micropole.

Mandatory gender pay gap reporting: a burden without a benefit?

One of the last gasps of the Coalition government was a commitment to bring into force section 78 of the Equality Act 2010, requiring employers to publish gender pay gap data. With regulations originally due to be effective from March 2016, a markedly vague consultation paper in July 2015 followed by a long silence did … Continue reading Mandatory gender pay gap reporting: a burden without a benefit?