Bezzina v Dillon – Jul 2013

Concerns a complaint of discrimination in employment on the basis of parental status and employment activity, and raises an employer’s obligation to accommodate an employee’s responsibilities as a parent or carer.

The Commission’s submission consider:

• the scope and application of an employer’s obligation to accommodate an employee’s responsibilities as a parent or carer
• the interpretation of ‘direct discrimination’ and ‘indirect discrimination’
• the interpretation of ’employment activity’
• the Tribunal’s power to make orders to prevent future breaches of the EOA 2010, including the positive duty.

The application was withdrawn by the Applicant prior to the hearing.