A female planning enforcement officer for Kent County Council has been awarded more than £37,000 at an employment tribunal, after partly winning an equal pay claim. The employee raised concerns after being placed on a lower pay band than her male predecessor, despite undertaking the same responsibilities within Kent County Council's two-person planning enforcement team. A tribunal found that the council had breached the sex equality clause and that its assessment of the emplo

What steps is the Government taking to allay the pressures on the ET – and will these go far enough? A version of this article first appeared in Employer News 24 March 2026 Last week’s Employment Tribunal statistics show that pressure on the UK’s Employment Tribunal system continues to grow. In Q3 2025 there were around 52,000 open cases, increasing to 58,000 by the end of December 2025, an increase of roughly 11–12% in just one quarter. The widening gap between claims rec

An employment tribunal has ruled in favour of Sandra Moody, a black higher-level teaching assistant, who successfully proved race discrimination, harassment and unfair dismissal after being accused of having an “angry face” and intimidating pupils at a Southwark primary school. The tribunal found that complaints about her tone and facial expression were vague, exaggerated and influenced by negative racial stereotypes, with similar behaviour by white colleagues not scrutinised

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