An employment tribunal has found that an employer did not commit discrimination arising from disability and met its duty to make reasonable adjustments when it withdrew a conditional job offer after health and safety concerns over a job applicant's epilepsy.
David Malamatenios is a partner and Sandra Martins, Krishna Santra and Colin Makin are senior associates at
Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.
Two young sisters who resigned from their jobs in a service station after what they felt was aggressive and unfair criticism have won their claims for age and sex discrimination in an employment tribunal.
A claimant who brought a groundbreaking caste discrimination case has been awarded £183,774 for unlawful deductions from wages, with further compensation to come for race discrimination.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has suggested that the victimisation provisions in the Equality Act 2010 extend to claims of discrimination by association.
An employment tribunal has rejected the unfair dismissal claim of an employee who was caught making a public appearance as a medium while on sick leave.
In General Dynamics Information Technology Ltd v Carranza [2015] IRLR 43 EAT, the EAT held that, when dismissing a disabled employee for absence, the employer was not required either to disregard a final written warning for the purpose of complying with its duty to make reasonable adjustments, or to review the warning before placing reliance on it to effect dismissal.
The sudden dismissal of an employee with caring responsibilities who is performing satisfactorily will raise suspicions of associative disability discrimination, as the employer in this employment tribunal case found out.