Maximum recruitment age for police: EU case

The EU Court of Justice (ECJ) has upheld a maximum recruitment age of 35 for the Basque police. There was evidence that an officer aged 55 o...

S.15 EqA: justification of steps under absence management procedure

The EAT held it will normally be a question of whether individual steps under the procedure are justified, rather than the procedure as a wh...

Work placements arranged by university

The Court of Appeal has applied EU law to hold that a student could make an employment tribunal claim for discrimination by a work placement...

Workers abroad: when does the EqA apply?

The Court of Appeal rejected an argument that the Equality Act had a wider territorial reach than unfair dismissal (even apart from EU law)....

Equality Act 2010: five years on

The Equality Act (EqA) is now more than five years old. Most of it took effect on 1st October 2010. It is a good time therefore to look fair...

Dismissal for long-term absence and reasonable adjustments

The EAT has overturned the tribunal’s reasoning in a case on dismissal for long-term sickness absence. A particular feature of the cas...

Pregnancy: Do health and safety laws override Equality Act?

Compulsory H&S laws provide EqA defence Schedule 22 EqA excludes from the provisions of the EqA anything that must be done pursuant to a...

If incapacity is due to the employer or work

Summary There is authority that employers may need to ‘go the extra mile’ to avoid unfair dismissal if incapacity was the employer’s fault, ...

Equality Act 2010

The Equality Act 2010 (EqA) consolidated the multiplicity of Acts and regulations applying to the different protected characteristics, whils...