Reynolds v CLFIS (UK) Ltd

Subject Matter

DISCRIMINATION — Age — Employment — Concerns raised about claimant’s performance — Senior manager deciding to terminate claimant’s consultancy agreement — Views of others in respondent company relevant to decision — Tribunal concluding senior manager’s approach not discriminatory — Whether sufficient to discharge burden on respondent to prove absence of discrimination — Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006, reg 3(1)

UKEAT/484/13; [2014] ICR 907, EAT

DISCRIMINATION — Age — Employment — Concerns raised about claimant’s performance — Senior manager deciding to terminate claimant’s consultancy agreement — Views of others in respondent company relevant to decision — Tribunal concluding senior manager’s approach not discriminatory — Whether sufficient to discharge burden on company to prove absence of discrimination — Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (SI/2006/1031), reg 3(1)

[2015] EWCA Civ 439; [2015] ICR 1010; [2015] WLR (D) 197, CA

Appellate History