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Police Force Face Claims for Race Discrimination

Over recent months the British Police Forcein the eyes of the law. If someone, and not
has found itself dealing with a number ofnecessarily the alleged victim, feels that
claims for compensation due to discriminationracism has occurred a case can be brought to
in the workplace on grounds of race anda  tribunal  to  ascertain  the  facts.
ethnicity. One Police officer has submitted a
claim for £500,000 pounds because heRacism in the workplace occurs across all
believes he was discriminated against andsectors and industries and poses very
denied  a  promotion  unfairly.difficult situations for both employees and
employers. Tribunals are the place where the
The claim is being made against thecases get settled, but cases for race
Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Iandiscrimination can take months to reach this
Blair, who has been accused of sidelining,point. Before a case goes to tribunal there
Asian and black detectives. There is no limithas to be evidence that the situation has
on the amount of compensation which can be inbeen tried to be resolved within the company
claimed in a race discrimination case whichfirst. Employees need to show they have
typically results in demands for highexhausted the internal company policies which
payouts. However there does need to beare typically done through raising a
compelling evidence that the discriminationgrievance or going through an appeal process.
has occurred in order for a case to beIf the employee is not happy with the outcome
successful.and they have reached the end of the line in
regards to company policies, then they are
Unfortunately this Officer's claim forable to take their case to the tribunal.
compensation is not the only one to have beenEmployment law works differently to criminal
raised. Another Police employee haslaw by the nature in which the verdict is
also submitted a claim for racialdetermined. In a criminal court the evidence
discrimination at the hands of Sir Ian Blair.provided has to prove beyond reasonable doubt
The claims have come as a bit of a shock, asthat a crime has or has not been committed.
many people believe that the MetropolitanIn employment law the evidence is weighed up
police Commissioner got the job because ofaccording to the balance of probabilities. If
his stance on promoting diversity not forthere is a 51 percent chance that an event
being against it. Sir Ian Blair stronglyoccurred than the ruling will come down in
denies the claims and many others arefavour of that event. Claims for race
supporting him. However everybody whodiscrimination are treated in this manner and
feels they have been the victim of racist init will be up to both the employee and the
the workplace has the right to have theiremployer to prove what happened before
case heard. It may be that that the racismoutcomes of the case can be decided.
was not intentional but that does not matter



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