Coronavirus (COVID-19) A guide for OH practitioners including: Latest developments Duties of employers OH consultations and tests Health condition etc putting ...
Testing to protect others, including drugs and alcohol Summary The GDPR applies. Generally testing should be minimised and used only so far as justified. Health and safety reasons will normally b...
Indirect discrimination Indirect discrimination extends protection beyond the ‘formal’ equality of treatment tackled by direct discrimination. It can apply where an...
Unfair dismissal: unsafe working conditions Summary A worker has protection if (broadly) in circumstances of danger which he reasonably believes to be serious and imminent he leaves hi...
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...
Unfair dismissal: unsafe working conditions New web page added on this, including illustrative tribunal case on Covid-19. We have added a separate page on Unfair dismissal: unsafe work...
Rights of ‘workers’ on taking steps in response to danger, and to PPE The Government has issued draft regulations to extend to ‘workers’ protection for taking steps in response to danger. This is to...
EU law still relevant at the last hour In a recent case in the High Court the trade union that represents workers in the ‘gig economy’, the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Bri...
Whistleblowing protection Summary Whistleblowing legislation protects workers against dismissal or other detriment if they make ‘protected disclosures’. This can incl...
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 ...
