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Tag: Good Practice Guides

Good practice guide: dismissal of an employee after long-term sickness absence

Good practice guides are meant as general guidance for practitioners to help them comply with the law and good practice, rather than explain...
12 Jun 2017 filed under Uncategorised .

Good practice guide: Fitness to attend capability and disciplinary interviews

Good practice guides are meant as general guidance for practitioners to help them comply with the law and good practice, rather than explain...
15 May 2017 filed under Uncategorised .

Good practice guide: Confidentiality and consent on a management referral

Good practice guides are meant as general guidance for practitioners to help them comply with the law and good practice, rather than explain...
01 Aug 2016 filed under Uncategorised .
  • Home
  • Legal Topics
    • Age
      • Age direct discrimination
      • Compulsory retirement
      • Fixed retirement ages for health and safety, and maximum recruitment ages
      • Age indirect discrimination
      • Age-related harassment
      • Age discrimination: exceptions and particular areas
      • Provision of services: age discrimination
      • Age: Health and safety legislation for younger workers
    • Bloodborne viruses
      • Health and safety law on sharps injuries, incl needlestick directive
      • Personal injury claims and needlestick injuries
      • Equality Act and bloodborne viruses
    • Consent and confidentiality
      • Data protection (GDPR)
        • GDPR: the controller
        • GDPR: what records are covered?
        • GDPR: Data protection principles
        • GDPR: Consent
        • GDPR: Conditions for lawful processing
        • GDPR: Privacy notices
        • GDPR: Worker’s right to request disclosure
        • GDPR: Security
        • GDPR: Miscellaneous
        • GDPR: Brexit
        • Freedom of information requests
        • Archive: Data Protection Act 1998
          • DPA 1998: what records are covered?
          • DPA 1998: the data controller
          • DPA 1998: the Data Protection principles
          • DPA 1998: Worker’s right to request disclosure
          • DPA 1998: Employment practices code and guidance
      • Duty of Confidentiality
      • Consent
      • Consent for OH reports
      • Pre-employment questionnaires: confidentiality and consent
      • If consent is not given, or is withdrawn
      • Where is consent not needed?
      • Seeking information from a GP or other doctor
      • Access to Medical Reports Act 1988
      • Report for judicial proceedings
      • Covert surveillance
      • OH records
      • Pressure to breach OH legal/ethical obligations
      • Good practice guide: Confidentiality and consent on a management referral
    • Disability
      • What is a ‘disability’?
        • Disability: The definition
        • Disability: ‘Impairment’
        • Substantial adverse effect
        • Disability: ‘Normal day-to-day activities’
        • Disability: Effect of medical treatment
        • Disability: ‘Long-term effect’
        • Perceived disability
        • OH reporting on whether disabled
        • Medical evidence to prove disability under the EqA
      • Reasonable adjustments
        • Reasonable adjustments: detailed rules
        • Adjustments: What is reasonable?
        • Examples of reasonable adjustments
        • Attendance management and Equality Act
        • Sick pay, pay protection, and Equality Act 2010
        • Redeployment
        • Disability/health and disciplinary or grievance procedures
      • Disability discrimination
        • Disability: Direct discrimination
        • Discrimination arising from disability (EqA s.15)
        • Objective justification and disability
        • Health and safety as a justification for disability discrimination
        • Indirect disability discrimination (EqA s.19)
        • Disability: Discrimination by association
      • Knowledge of the disability under EqA
        • Disability: Is the employer treated as knowing what OH knows?
      • Types of disability
        • Obesity
        • Menopause
    • Employment
      • Rights of workers and employees: introduction
      • Contract law
      • Employment contract or contract for services?
      • Workers
      • Employment contracts
      • Pay
      • Agency workers
    • Equality Act 2010
      • Protected characteristics under EqA
        • Sex discrimination
        • Race and religion or belief
        • Sexual orientation and the EqA
        • Gender reassignment
      • Discrimination under EqA
        • Direct discrimination under EqA
        • Indirect discrimination
        • ‘Objective justification’ defence
        • Other EqA defences
        • Harassment in the EqA
        • Victimisation
        • Discrimination by association and by perception
        • EqA shift in burden of proof
        • Public sector equality duty (PSED)
      • EqA scope and liability
        • EqA: Employees and others covered by the employment provisions
        • Who is liable under the EqA?
        • Provision of services, and public functions
      • EqA Codes of Practice and Guidance
    • Family-friendly measures
      • Shared parental leave and pay
      • Paternity leave
      • Unpaid parental leave
      • Parental bereavement leave and pay
      • Time off for dependants (emergencies)
      • Right to request flexible working
      • Adoption
    • Fitness to attend hearing
      • Is the worker fit to attend?
      • Adjustments to the meeting
      • Can hearing proceed without the employee?
      • Good practice guide: Fitness to attend capability and disciplinary interviews
    • Fitness to work
      • S.60 EqA: Pre-employment enquiries
      • Pre-employment: Equality Act
      • Lying at pre-employment
      • Testing to protect others, including drugs and alcohol
      • Health surveillance: Screening to protect the employee
      • Genetic screening
      • General health screening
    • Jurisdictions, and foreign workers
      • United Kingdom jurisdictions
        • Northern Ireland discrimination law
        • Scotland
      • Working abroad: unfair dismissal and Equality Act
    • Legal system: an introduction
      • Sources of law
      • Types of law: civil and criminal
      • Brexit
      • Courts involved with disputes related to occupational disease and injury
      • European Union (EU)
      • European Convention on Human Rights, and Human Rights Act
      • How to find the law
    • Managing sickness and absence
      • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
        • Archive: Self-isolation regulations for Covid-19
      • Dismissal for long-term absence: Overview
      • Illness and unfair dismissal
      • Ill health dismissal and the EqA
      • If incapacity is due to the employer or work
      • Persistent shorter absences
      • Conflict of OH with other medical opinion
      • Good practice guide: dismissal of an employee after long-term sickness absence
    • Mental health / Stress
      • Mental health: Is there a ‘disability’ within the EqA?
      • S.60 EqA: Coping with mental pressure
      • Personal injury: Occupational Stress
      • Personal injury: Traumatic shock
      • Stress under health and safety legislation
      • Protection from Harassment Act 1997
    • OH regulation and liability
      • OH practitioner’s duty of care in civil law
      • OH practitioner liability under EqA
      • Criminal liability of OH practitioners
      • Indemnity for OH professionals
      • Revalidation
    • Personal injury (negligence)
      • Personal injury
      • Vicarious liability in negligence claims
      • Personal injury: Voluntary assumption of risk
      • Asbestos-related disease, including mesothelioma: compensation
    • Pregnancy and maternity
      • Pregnancy and maternity under health & safety regulations
      • Pregnancy and maternity under Equality Act 2010
      • Pregnancy: Employment protection rights
      • Pregnancy: Do health and safety laws override Equality Act?
      • IVF treatment
      • Surrogacy
    • RIDDOR and other public disclosure
      • RIDDOR
      • Notification of infectious diseases (NOIDS)
    • Tribunals and reports
      • Tribunal legal procedure
      • Tribunal remedies
      • Tribunals: The role of OH
      • Tribunals: Preparing the OH report
      • Tribunals: Giving evidence
      • Tribunal guidance on expert evidence
    • Unfair dismissal
      • Unfair dismissal: the rules
      • Grievance and disciplinary procedures
      • Unfair dismissal: unsafe working conditions
    • Whistleblowing
      • Duty to disclose poor practice?
      • Whistleblowing protection
    • Working time regulations
      • Paid holiday under Working Time Regulations
      • Working Time
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