Gender Effects in British Unfair Dismissal Tribunal Hearings
利用1992年工业法庭申请调查数据,研究发现英国工业法庭中男性占主导的陪审团更可能支持女性申诉人,而年龄和种族无显著影响,程序问题被强调。
Using data on unfair dismissals from the 1992 Survey of Industrial Tribunal Applications, the authors investigate appellant success at British industrial tribunal hearings. They find evidence that, as in North American grievance arbitration, predominantly male tribunal panels were more likely to sustain cases brought by female applicants than those brought by male applicants. No role for other gross observable characteristics such as age or ethnicity is found; tribunals instead appear to have placed strong emphasis on issues of procedure, as required by law. No gender effect is apparent in the determination of compensation in sustained cases.