Attendance management and Equality Act Sickness absence procedures are subject to the reasonable adjustment duty, as recently confirmed by the Court of Appeal. However other types...
Pregnancy and maternity under Equality Act 2010 Summary Equality Act protection for pregnancy discrimination is wide. For example, it is not an excuse that the woman was taken on to tempor...
Case on written warning under sickness absence policy The EAT held a written warning under a sickness absence policy to be in breach of the Equality Act (EqA), after the employer failed to consu...
Attendance management and reasonable adjustments A key decision of the Court of Appeal has made clear that it may be a reasonable adjustment to increase the number of days’ absence that wil...
Griffiths decision on attendance procedures The Court of Appeal has held that the reasonable adjustment duty does apply to attendance procedures. Controversially, the EAT had previousl...
