ACAS guidance on menopause On World Menopause Day, 18th October, ACAS has launched new guidance for employers to help manage the impact of menopause at work. The ACAS ...
Whether work-related stress ended by dismissal was ‘long-term’ The EAT held that work-related stress may be long-term even if the worker is dismissed within 12 months after it started. The claimant was o...
Equality Act and bloodborne viruses Is the condition a disability? Workers will have greater rights, including to reasonable adjustments, if a bloodborne virus is a disability ...
Redeployment Summary Redeployment of a disabled person may be required as a reasonable adjustment under Equality Act 2010. Also dismissal may not be just...
Disability: Direct discrimination Summary Direct discrimination effectively sets a boundary to the objective justification defence, since this defence is not available for di...
Disability: The definition The definition, and deciding whether it is met ‘Disability’ is defined in s.6 EqA as follows: There is supplementary detail on the definitio...
Perceived disability discrimination case The Court of Appeal has upheld EAT and tribunal decisions that direct discrimination because the employer perceived the claimant to have a d...
OH reporting on whether disabled Summary Whether an employee is disabled within the Equality Act is not a medical issue but a legal one. It is a matter for the judgment of t...
Side effects of contact lens correcting double vision The EAT held that facial disfigurement and other side effects did not mean diplopia (double vision) was not ‘correctable’ by a c...
Disability: Effect of medical treatment Measures being taken to treat or correct an impairment are discounted in deciding whether it has a long-term substantial effect so as to be ...
