Employment Law: Sex Discrimination – Justification – Margin of Discretion
Employment Law: Sex Discrimination – Justification – Margin of Discretion In the case of Hardys and Hansons plc v Lax [2005] EWCA Civ 846 (Court of Appeal), the appellant employers were brewers who ran a chain of public houses. The respondent was employed by the appellant and subsequently took maternity leave, and during this time, she put in a request to her employer to job share her post of retail recruitment manager upon her return from maternity leave, or alternatively to take up a tenanted support manager’s job on a job share basis. Her request was denied and she brought...