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Duty to Make Reasonable Adjustments Not Triggered Until Employee Ready to Return to Work
...discrimination, arguing that her employer had breached the duty to make reasonable adjustments. The employment tribunal rejected her claim. The attendance policy put D at a substantial disadvantage ...
Chloe Harrold's Column for The HR Director on HR Blunders in the Apprentice
...discrimination alarm bells ringing then Brett Butler-Smythe would have solved that with his contribution to the conversation: “This task will be problematic – women and fish”. Well Butler-Smythe, the...
Justifying Steps under Absence Management policies
...discrimination arising from disability has to justify its treatment of the particular employee and the steps it has taken under that policy in relation to that employee. The employment tribunal had b...
Beth Cooke
...discrimination. Beth’s work also encompasses advising individuals on the terms of settlement agreements and whether the package being offered on behalf of their employer is fair, given the situatio...
Why Age Doesn't Matter - as published in Economia
...discrimination? Doyle Clayton's report shows that age discrimination is most likely to be an issue in medium-sized enterprises. Perhaps this is not so surprising; they may not have the benefit of a ...
Injury to feeling awards to increase
...discrimination claims. The new bands reflect increases by the Retail Prices Index (RPI) rate of inflation and a 10% “Simmons v Castle” uplift following the ruling in Simmons v Castle tha...
Increase to injury to feelings awards from 6 April 2020
...discrimination claims are increasing for employment tribunal claims presented on or after 6 April 2020. The new bands are as follows: Lower band of £900 to £9,000 (for less serious cases)...
Snakes and Ladders in the Supreme Court: Seldon v Clarkson Wright and Jakes
...discrimination, as claimed by Mr Seldon, and indirect age discrimination. Direct age discrimination has to be justified on the basis of social policy objectives; those of a public interest nature whi...
Employers’ Retirement Notices Invalid Due to Technicality
...discrimination. The employment tribunal held that the employer had complied with the statutory requirements. Mr Bailey, on the other hand, had not as he did not state that his request not to retire w...
LLP Members Not Workers
...discrimination claims as the Equality Act 2010 extends to discrimination against partners and LLP members.
ECJ Rules on Surrogacy and Entitlement to Maternity Leave
...discrimination, as a father who receives a baby under a surrogacy arrangement is not entitled to leave either. The woman is not therefore treated less favourably. In addition, there was no question ...
More trouble for Jose Mourinho and Chelsea
...discrimination claims against Chelsea, and Mourinho in particular, likely to succeed, or does Dr Carneiro face a difficult legal battle? Less favourable treatment The essence of a sex discrimination...
Why is menopause a workplace issue?
...discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 from the first day of their employment. Potential claims therefore include unfair dismissal, direct or indirect discrimination (on grounds of sex, age and/or...
Rejecting a flexible working request - Implications for employers
...discrimination claims, and it means provision, criterion, or practice - in other words, some sort of rule or policy. And, in an indirect discrimination case the PCP or the rule or policy is said to ...
Expectation that Employee Work Long Hours Engaged Reasonable Adjustments Duty
...discrimination. Disability Discrimination He argued that his employer had breached its duty to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate his disability. His employer denied that it was under a duty...
Ethical veganism is a protected belief
...discrimination on grounds of religious or philosophical belief. In order for a belief to be protected as a philosophical belief it must: Be genuinely held Be a belief and not an opinion or vie...
Are Dentists Workers?
...discrimination. Implications We anticipate that the findings will have significant implications for NHS Dentistry. Ms Sejpal’s relationship with the dental practice is...
£4.6m in damages awarded to former employee of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
...discrimination. This is believed to be one of the highest, and potentially the highest, figure for a judgment of this kind. A Tribunal found in her favour in 2021, and also found that the Council’s o...
An employee has asked about breastfeeding at work. What are our legal obligations?
...Discrimination Employers must be mindful not to discriminate against employees who breastfeed. For example, although there is no statutory right to take time off to breastfeed, employers should try t...
Employer Not Liable for Discriminatory Term in Permanent Health Insurance Policy
...discrimination by the insurer. The employment tribunal also ruled that even if there had been less favourable caused by the employer, it would have been justified as all PHI insurance policies contai...