In only the second appellate decision on menopause in the workplace, the EAT held that an Employment Tribunal had erred in deciding that a woman suffering from a wide range of menopausal symptoms which affected her day to day life was not disabled for employment law purposes.

In the first of two articles, BDBF’s Melvyna Mumunie reports on the joint FCA, PRA and BoE Discussion Paper that aims to speed up the pace of meaningful change in diversity and inclusion in the financial services sector

An Employment Tribunal has recently decided that the dismissal of two senior male employees amounted to sex discrimination, where the dismissals had followed the announcement of the employer’s gender pay gap figures and a radical new approach to diversity within the business.

Davina McCall’s recent high-profile documentary, Sex Myths and the Menopause, helped normalise conversations about the menopause in our living rooms. Since then, the movement to bring the menopause out into the open – including in the workplace – has gathered momentum, with two new Parliamentary inquiries launched in the last few weeks. In this briefing we explain what the inquiries are about and how you can submit your views.

In Forstater v CGD Europe and others the EAT held that gender critical beliefs, including beliefs that biological sex cannot be changed and is different to gender identity, are protected beliefs under the Equality Act 2010 and the European Convention of Human Rights.

Is it discriminatory to require working mothers to comply with onerous working patterns? In our latest briefing, Amanda Steadman, Principal Knowledge Lawyer, discusses a recent EAT decision which helps women pursuing such claims.