Disability discrimination

New and updated

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  David Malamatenios is a partner at Colman Coyle Solicitors. He rounds up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  5 April 2016

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Discrimination arising from disability: director's unsympathetic comments about mental illness

  This tribunal decision concerned a director who made dismissive comments about an employee's medical condition instead of considering whether or not she had a disability. The tribunal found the employer had constructive knowledge of the claimant's disability and the comments were discrimination arising from her disability.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Lauren Evans, Iain Naylor, David Rintoul, Lucy Sorell and Rachael Wake are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Meaning of disability: lifting up to 25kg is "normal day-to-day activity"

  Lifting up to 25kg is a "normal day-to-day activity" when deciding whether or not someone is disabled under the Equality Act 2010. Imogen Noons explains a recent Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision on the definition of disability.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Negative verbal reference and job offer withdrawal were discrimination arising from disability

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that both the claimant's former and prospective employers committed discrimination arising from disability when a negative verbal reference resulted in a job offer being withdrawn.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disability discrimination: discounting triggers in an attendance policy was not a reasonable adjustment

  The Court of Appeal has held that the duty to make reasonable adjustments will normally be engaged in a case where a disabled employee has disability-related absences that trigger the application of an attendance policy. However, the Court dismissed the appeal on the ground that on the particular facts of the case, the adjustments sought were not reasonable.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Krishna Santra and Sandra Martins are senior associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Discrimination arising from disability: £30,000 for employee dismissed for disability-related absences

  A public-sector worker with 34 years' service who was dismissed after exceeding her trigger point under the employer's absence management procedure by a few days has been awarded over £30,000 for discrimination arising from disability and unfair dismissal.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Jessica Alice-Curtis is a trainee solicitor, Lucy Melville is a paralegal and Nigel Cousin, David Rintoul and Rachael Wake are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Competitive redeployment exercise: NHS trust should have used alternative assessment method for employee with cancer

  An employment tribunal has held that an NHS trust committed discrimination arising from disability and failed to make reasonable adjustments for an employee having cancer treatment who was required to undergo a competitive interview process during a redeployment exercise.