NHS trust changing rooms tribunal ruling: What HR needs to know

U.K. Tribunal: Hospital Must Keep Men Out of Women’s Locker Rooms

A U.K. tribunal ruled last week that a policy forcing female nurses to share a changing room with a “transgender” nurse is illegal. ... The post U.K. Tribunal: Hospital Must Keep Men Out of Women’s Locker Rooms appeared first on The New American.

NHS trust changing rooms tribunal ruling: What HR needs to know

Summary: A tribunal ruled that County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust harassed and indirectly discriminated against nurses by not taking their concerns about sharing a changing room with a transgender colleague seriously. The judgment clarifies that ‘sex’ in both the Equality Act 2010 and Workplace Health and Safety Regulations means biological sex, not gender identity. This provides certainty for employers managing single-sex facilit…