Comments on: BA Cabin Crew to bring race discrimination claim

By: no employment verification

no employment verification — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:07:15 +0000

Yes, on either analysis I’m not sure that the Claimants stand much chance.Also crew worked in bases in Glasgow, when these bases were closed down the crew were offered work in London,

By: Gem

Gem — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:24:53 +0000

Many employees were recruited in a big recruitment drive in Europe some years ago.. they took up employment with BA knowing that the company offered concesionary staff travel. Also crew worked in bases in Glasgow, when these bases were closed down the crew were offered work in London, the company knew that these crew had to commute to work and were offered consesionary travel. When these crew took part in IA the consesionary travel was taken off them.. thus making it imposible in some cases for crew to get to work

By: Usefully Employed

Usefully Employed — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:25:39 +0000

Yes, on either analysis I’m not sure that the Claimants stand much chance. Hence my rather laboured Carlisle bus analogy; when one takes a step back the justification for the treatment is simply that the employer is based in Heathrow and obviously it will be easier for English people to commute there. The notion that race discrimination law should demand or preserve a subsidised commute to work is a deeply unattractive one, regardless of the employees’ no doubt genuine feeling of unfairness at having the benefit stripped away.

By: James Medhurst

James Medhurst — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:39:05 +0000

Hmm. I am not sure that it is possible to argue that a change from one PCP to another is itself a PCP – see the case of ABN-AMRO v Hogben. Therefore, what will be looked at in this case is not whether the change has more impact on, say, Scottish employees but whether the new policy does. Given that the original policy of BA was extremely unusual and no other employer does anything like it, justification will surely succeed.