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.

Gareth Brahams speaks at the White Paper Conference answering the question: when can you be fixed with constructive knowledge of an undeclared disability?

This week is MS Awareness Week, a campaign which seeks to raise awareness of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and encourage those affected by it to speak openly about how it impacts them. In this article, BDBF Associate, Theo Nicou considers what employers can do to help break the silence and support staff with the condition.

On 12 March 2021, the Parker Review Committee published its update report setting out its survey results of FTSE 100 companies on the ethnic diversity of their boards.