Work Experience
by Philip
Ever wonder whether work experience students have any employment rights, in particular the right not to be discriminated against? Wonder no more, Burton J in a very comprehensive judgement answers the question in a straightforward way:
Finally I stand back and ask myself whether there is any principled reason why the 1976 Act should not apply to work experience or work placement. I see none, and there appears to me to be no distinction from that point of view between applying the principles of race relations, and anti-discrimination law, to ‘training proper’, as Ms Outhwaite would have it, and to work placement or work experience.
Just bear that in mind when you take on (or fail to take on, as was the case here) students looking for work experience or vacation placements.
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