Recommendation where worker alleged to have been bullied The tribunal could make a recommendation that the employer undertake not to have the claimant work with particular colleagues in future, bac...
Harassment in the EqA Summary This page deals with harassment under s.26(1) Equality Act 2010, which applies to most protected characteristics. Two other types o...
Whether work-related stress ended by dismissal was ‘long-term’ The EAT held that work-related stress may be long-term even if the worker is dismissed within 12 months after it started. The claimant was o...
Health and safety as a justification for disability discrimination Summary An argument that health and safety justifies excluding a woman or someone with a disability or someone from an ethnic minority etc m...
Test on recruitment: failure to make adjustment for Asperger’s A job applicant with Asperger’s Syndrome did not pass a situational strengths test and so was not put through to the next stage, a Sky...
Knowledge of the disability under EqA Relevance of knowledge, and key points An employer has a defence to the reasonable adjustment duty if it did not know, and could not reasona...
Disability: Direct discrimination Summary Direct discrimination effectively sets a boundary to the objective justification defence, since this defence is not available for di...
Disability: Effect of medical treatment Measures being taken to treat or correct an impairment are discounted in deciding whether it has a long-term substantial effect so as to be ...
Disability-related reason need not be main reason for dismissal The EAT considered, under s.15 EqA (discrimination arising from disability), a case where there were also non-disability-related reasons for...
Lying at pre-employment A controversial subject concerns what should happen to an employee who is found to have lied about, or withheld health information requested...
