Employment Tribunal Case to Protect Single-Sex Facilities at Work

[FayeRC]

Dear Mumsnet Members,

I have issued an employment tribunal complaint against NHS England to protect single-sex facilities at work.

A preliminary hearing will be held in early October 2024. I would be very grateful for some urgent gardening support at CrowdJustice. I won't add a link here as it is against Mumsnet rules.

It would be interesting to hear other people's views on legislation around single-sex facilities at WORK. However, I won't be commenting much on this public forum whilst the case is on-going.

Yours faithfully,
Faye Russell-Caldicott / FayeRC

Nearly half way there!

£3015 - over half way!

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Keep going!

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In the words of Bon Jovi, we're half way there...

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That's great!

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Hi All,

thank you so much for pushing this past the half way point. If we continue like this, the goal should be reached around Tuesday. Please keep sharing on X and Facebook to keep it visible. Thank you!

Google the thread title to find the link.

I just copied and pasted the words and put the name to search...its all ok now.

But bloody hell, censorship!!

I've done a bit of digging. I'm not on any social media apart from mumsnet but I'll spread the word to like minded friends

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Making progress! Such an important issue that needs to be considered by the courts so women have that formal protection x

Have dug! Very important case (Dad Joke agrees so it must be). Really hope the target is reached.

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Quite easy to find - all the best

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Thanks for bumping, I tried to get my trug and trowel out yesterday, finally got through to the page and left the pay bit going for an hour. The network here is rubbish; should be home by Tuesday and can try from home...

More I think about it, more important I think this case is. As I understand it, equality law allows service providers to provide single sex facilities and services where justified, including allowing them to exclude trans identifying people with a GRC. I suppose it was assumed, when that legislation was drafted, that employers would automatically apply that exemption to changing rooms or toilets at work. I can't really think of a more clearly justified example, so if it doesn't apply here, what's the point of the exemption? (Except maybe rape crisis centres, looking at you ERCC and RCS!)

It needs to be clear that employers have to provide single sex facilities, which are genuinely single sex, not self ID gender, not legal sex, actual, biological, factual sex, and that it's discrimination to fail to provide single sex facilities for women when they're taking their bloody clothes off. Being forced to change in front of someone you know is male, and told you're a bigot/ may be disciplined for objecting, sounds horrible and humiliating.

It was infuriating to hear the women and equalities select committee chair squirming on Woman's Hour this week, claiming that the Labour government will protect spaces for 'women' who she defines by some examples of how women are discriminated against. Honestly, this stuff turns people's brains to soup. You can't protect a group from discrimination if your only definition of the group is the discrimination they experience. Does she think the category of woman will cease to exist if we eliminate pay inequality and street harassment? Does a man who's underpaid get to go in the women's loos? She made herself sound an absolute idiot.

Labour's promise to protect single sex spaces is clearly completely worthless, since they only want to protect them against the men who don't want to come in anyway.

I wonder what has happened re the nurses who had a man in their changing room. Anyone know?

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Digging done!

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Gardened. Bloody disgrace that we are in this position.

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I’ve just tried to plant a little seedling but my bank’s verification protocol is up the swanee so I’ll try again in the morning.