In Waddingham v NHS Business Services Authority, a former NHS employee was awarded £115,000 by the Tribunal for failure to make reasonable adjustments and disability discrimination. The case reminds us of the costly implications of not making the right reasonable adjustments, even where the employee may not have actually proposed any adjustments Read more…
The Government has launched a consultation on regulations which will require companies with 250 or more employees to carry out an equal pay review and publish their gender pay gap. Until now, the government’s power under Section 78 of the Equality Act 2010 (to make regulations requiring mandatory gender pay gap reporting) Read more…
It is common for bonus schemes to be conditional upon a number of factors including financial and personal performance, the employee not being under notice when the bonus is due and sometimes having a clean disciplinary record and a good attendance record. Is an employer free to choose whatever conditions Read more…
Many managers and people working in HR will have grown used to the concept of age discrimination over the last ten years or so since regulations came into effect making it unlawful to discriminate in employment on the grounds of age. As with many changes in the law, when the Read more…
Following the decision in Dyer v London Ambulance NHS Trust this week, a case which confirmed that it was unreasonable to expect an employer to ban its employees from wearing perfume or aerosol deodorants for fear of setting off a disabled employee’s severe allergic reaction to aerosols, we explore some Read more…
Employers often find it difficult to deal with intermittent sickness absence but matters can be made much more complicated if the employee off sick is disabled. This is a reoccurring problem in practice so I am using this blog to analyse a recent interesting case on an employer’s legal obligations Read more…
It is relatively common for an employer to have redeployment opportunities arising from a restructure. However, difficult issues can arise in practice where the employee at risk of redundancy suffers from a disability which might disadvantage them during the redeployment selection process. How far must an employer go in adjusting Read more…
Employment Tribunal statistics for the first quarter of 2014 have been published today. In light of the introduction of Employment Tribunal fees last year, these statistics have been eagerly awaited. You may recall from our previous blog that the statistics for the period from October to December 2013 showed a Read more…
It is well known that, under the Equality Act 2010, an employer is under a duty to make reasonable adjustments in relation to a disabled person. It is less well known what this means in practice and when the duty actually applies. The purpose of the duty is to assist Read more…