EAT considers pay compensation for disabled employee The EAT went some way – but not that far – in considering Equality Act issues on redeployment and pay while off sick. In West v Royal Bank o...
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...
Supreme Court decision on indirect discrimination In Essop, the Supreme Court restored what was previously understood to be the law on indirect discrimination. The claimant need not establis...
Indirect discrimination Indirect discrimination extends protection beyond the ‘formal’ equality of treatment tackled by direct discrimination. It can apply where an...
Race and religion or belief Summary Race and religion have been combined on this page because they tend to be less important in an occupational health (OH) setting than...
Sex discrimination Summary Direct discrimination is unlawful even if the employer it trying to be ‘chivalrous’. However in limited cases positive discriminatio...
New cases on associative discrimination New cases have considered indirect discrimination claims by someone without the protected characteristic, associative victimisation, and all...
Age indirect discrimination Summary Indirect discrimination is where someone isn’t treated less favourably because of their age as such (age direct discrimination), but...
Right to request flexible working Summary The right to request flexible working has probably excited rather more coverage in the British press (where it has been largely misu...
Indirect disability discrimination (EqA s.19) Summary Indirect disability discrimination is new in the Equality Act. It can apply widely to disability, as the examples below show. Howeve...
