Need to Know HR update now available from Winckworth Sherwood
The latest edition of Need to Know HR Update from Winckworth Sherwood discusses discrimination awards and multiple respondents. It is common in discrimination cases for employees (‘claimants’) to bring claims against more than one party (‘respondents’). For example, in the case of the employee’s colleague who carries out the discriminatory acts and the employer who is vicariously liable for those discriminatory acts; both can be named as separate respondents.
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