Non-invasive cancer covered by EqA The EAT has held that an in situ cancer was automatically a disability within the Equality Act 2010. Cancer is automatically a disability by...
Employer’s knowledge of disability: Donelien decision upheld The Court of Appeal has upheld the EAT’s decision in Donelien v Liberata that on the facts the employer could not reasonably be expected to ...
Tribunal claim against dismissal by police misconduct tribunal The Supreme Court has held an employment tribunal has jurisdiction to consider a dismissal by a police misconduct tribunal. The claimant had...
Dismissal where depression due to difficulties with colleagues at work The EAT largely upheld a tribunal decision that (on the facts) a college was entitled to dismiss a lecturer who had been off work with a dep...
Sick pay, pay protection, and Equality Act 2010 Summary The courts have generally held that an employer does not have an obligation to pay extra sick pay under disability discrimination le...
Discrimination against carer of disabled child: Northern Ireland case The Northern Ireland Court of Appeal held there was associative direct discrimination when the mother of a disabled child was dismissed. In ...
Selection tests Diana Kloss reviews a decision that the way an employer conducted a psychometric test as part of its recruitment process was unlawful disabi...
Pre-employment: Equality Act Summary Job descriptions or person specifications should avoid unnecessary requirements, particularly those which may prejudice those with a...
Disability absence as ‘context’ rather than cause of redundancy dismissal The EAT upheld a decision that on the facts there was no discrimination arising from disability (s.15 EqA) where a claimant who had been abs...
Court of Appeal on long-term absence due to disability In a borderline decision, the Court of Appeal upheld an employment tribunal decision that a school was not justified under the Equality Act ...
