A SOCIALIST Challenge supporter discrimination and as e* The of Alison Guesi Alpine Soft Drinks was in the words of the chairman (sic) of the Tribunal Ladv French 'an open and shut case'. Ms Guest had phoned up for a driver's job in February to told by the depot manager that the firm did not employ • ladies because they could not lift crates and the job involved jumping in and out of vans all day This gentleman did not appear to have considered how arduous many of the jobs which women do nursing cleaning lifting heavy loads of shopping - can be and did not appear to have heard of the Sex Discrimination Act Alison Guest recently took a firm to an industrial tribunal fo your reporter JUDITH ARKWRIGHT shows the case revealed more about the law than it did about the company concernIn the United States if a woman takes case and wins than she wins on the basis of 'class action which means that the jurisdiction does cover all the women who have been discriminated agains: by the firm in question and The massive fines reall do hit the company hard Beass oe ! that society does discriminate and pensate women for • pas: discrimination After such a case the firm would be required to draw up target for ULNE future Alison Guest may have won her case but there i no guarantee that the firm will cease to discriminate It employs 400 drivers whe are all men but as Lad!
French herself expressed rather angrily, "The fac a.ne company discriminated other people is not with!. the jurisdiction of body. You can't have vot cake and eat it Crumbs Under the existing la tabie The Daily Mall May) carried a story abod a young man who had arplied to a tribunal again discrimination on groun.
was awarded costs for itjury to teelings and headlined in the Da Mail.
The so-called crimination against voung man was ina that the employer preter women because h!! *:: a source of chear We women can London Immigration Action GrouPublic meeting Deportation & Repatriatio•I ure 8 Socialist Challenge 11 June 1981 Page.