36 Commercial webinar on Discrimination law: Forstater, Cancel Culture and Where Employers Go From Here, with:
Richard O'Dair
Fergus McCombie
Sinead King
Everyone has a right to their own beliefs. The problem for employers is how to react when employees broadcast beliefs inside or outside the workplace which are deeply offensive to others and may lead to internal or external complaints.
Particular fault lines arise around self-definition of gender, and religious belief and homosexuality, where employees may have equally entrenched and deeply opposed beliefs, and the beliefs may involve the refusal to accept the validity of an important aspect of a person’s identity.
This seminar will consider the issues raised by the ET case of Forstater v CGB Europe, its subsequent reversal by the EAT and the guidance of the Court of Appeal in Page v NHS Trust Development Authority. The Seminar will focus on setting out the current legal position together with some suggestions about how to manage the difficulties that arise in practice.