Tribunal update: Tribunal considers when "learning difficulties" become a disability

HR & Compliance Centre provides a summary of an interesting recent employment tribunal ruling involving:

• a shop assistant who claimed that her "learning difficulties" are a disability under disability discrimination legislation. 

Would you like to read case reports on a particular area of employment law? If so, please email employment law editor Stephen Simpson. 

Also

In the employment tribunals Access the HR & Compliance Centre archive of tribunal decisions, as well as longer round-ups of cases on a particular topic. 

Telecoms firms ordered to pay £100,000 after national minimum wage underpayments A round-up of links to stories about employment tribunal rulings reported in the week beginning 1 April 2013, including the HMRC ordering two telecoms firms to pay £21,224.53 to 14 workers and £75,117.28 to 183 workers in national minimum wage arrears, as well as a £5,000 penalty each.