Sex discrimination may be getting easier to prove.

From: Financial News | Date: June 11, 2003 | Copyright information

Changes to the law in the UK have shifted the balance of power in sex discrimination cases towards employees. Philip Landau, a solicitor at the law firm Landau Zeffertt Weir, explains the new developments:

Employees have traditionally found it hard to prove sex discrimination. Although employment tribunals gave weight to failings in employers' explanations and procedures when drawing inferences of unlawful discrimination, the position was far from uniform or clear.

In October 2001, an amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act came into force (Section 63(a) of the Act) which ...

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