Gender reassignment Summary Gender reassignment is a protected characteristic under the EqA. It can apply even though the person does not undergo any form of me...
‘Long Covid’ as an Equality Act disability In summer 2022 we had what may be the first employment tribunal decision on how far Long Covid is a disability within the Equality Act. The ...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) A guide for OH practitioners including: Latest developments Duties of employers OH consultations and tests Health condition etc putting ...
Objective justification and disability Summary The employer has a defence to discrimination arising from disability (s.15) and, less importantly in practice, indirect discriminati...
Disability: adverse effects due to unfounded belief of claimant The EAT has held that where a claimant with epilepsy and vitiligo took steps restricting her life due to an unfounded belief that the steps ...
EU case on hearing requirements for prison guards Estonian regulations allowed spectacles etc to be used in deciding whether prison guards met vision requirements, but did not allow hearing ...
Health and safety as a justification for disability discrimination Summary An argument that health and safety justifies excluding a woman or someone with a disability or someone from an ethnic minority etc m...
Protecting an employee’s health as justification for discrimination Diana Kloss reviews an EAT decision which held an employer was entitled to refuse to second a disabled worker to Montenegro, given advice th...
Refusal to second ‘high risk’ worker abroad was justified The EAT upheld an employer’s decision not to second an employee to Montenegro when the secondment was classified as ‘high risk&#...
Menopause Summary Effects of the menopause (or perimenopause) will sometimes be a ‘disability’ within the Equality Act 2010. This will of course depen...
