Employment Notes
Tag: disability discrimination
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UK: Disability discrimination - limit to duty to automatically appoint redundant disabled employee to vacancy
Previous case law has established that, when a disabled employee becomes unable to carry out their current role, the duty to make reasonable …
UK: ECJ ruling on definition of disability
The ECJ has confirmed that a person who can work to a limited extent or limited hours can still be "disabled". Relying on the UN Convention on the Rights …
UK: Disability discrimination claim struck out where no evidence that employer knew of disability
Employers should succeed in striking out a claim where, putting the claimant's case at its best, there is still no evidence of an essential part of the …
UK: April 2013 changes: collective redundancy, statutory pay rates, injury to feelings and mental health
The minimum period between starting consultation on 100 or more proposed redundancies and the first dismissal taking effect has been reduced from 90 …
Hong Kong: Disability discrimination in the workplace
In the recent District Court case of Kan Che Sing v Lucky Dragon Boat (Belvedere) Restaurant Limited, a restaurant owner was found to be guilty of …
UK: Legislative proposals - mental health bill
A Private Members' Bill which would repeal legislative provisions preventing people with mental health conditions from being MPs, jurors or company …
UK: Reasonable adjustments for disabled employee - no need to supplement pay during phased return to work
The EAT has confirmed that an employer does not necessarily have to pay for work not done if offering a disabled employee a phased return to work. …
UK: Disability - employers may need to make reasonable adjustments to a practice even if it does not apply directly to disabled employees
The EAT has confirmed that employers should consider reasonable adjustments to policies or practices which do not apply directly to disabled employees …
UK: Disability - duty to make reasonable adjustments
Recent EAT rulings have established that: it is not a reasonable adjustment to give a disabled employee on sick leave a career sabbatical, nor to …
UK: Consultation on specialist disability employment programmes
The Government is consulting on specialist disability employment programmes, ending on 17 October 2011.
Equality Act: definition of disability
Statutory guidance on matters to be taken into account in determining questions relating to the definition of disability, updated to refer to the …
UK: Disability discrimination - limits on reasonable adjustments
An employer is only required to make reasonable adjustments to enable a disabled employee to remain in employment, not to enable them to leave on …
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