Disability discrimination

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• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case of the week: Effect, not cause, of condition is the key when considering disability

  In DLA Piper's case of the week, Foster v Cardiff University, the Employment Appeal Tribunal considered the issue of reasonable adjustments for an academic with chronic fatigue syndrome and how stress and anxiety affect that condition.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Tribunal finds chef with severe nut allergy to be disabled

  This employment tribunal allowed a chef's disability discrimination claim to proceed after finding that his severe nut allergy is a disability under the Equality Act 2010.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Tribunal finds individual's severe eczema to be a disability

  The employment tribunal in this case allowed the claimant's disability discrimination case to proceed after finding that her severe eczema is a disability under the Equality Act 2010.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Discrimination arising from disability: paramedic's theft of anesthetic gas not a consequence of depression

  This case is a useful early example, along with Williams v Ystrad Mynach College ET/1600019/11, of how employment tribunals are approaching the new concept of "discrimination arising from disability" under the Equality Act 2010. The claimant fell at the first hurdle by failing to demonstrate a link between his disability and his treatment by the employer.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disability: ECJ guidance on reduction in working hours as an adjustment for disabled workers

  The European Court of Justice has confirmed that a reduction in working hours can be regarded as reasonable accommodation for disabled workers where the reduction makes it possible for the worker to continue in employment and does not represent a disproportionate burden on the employer.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disability discrimination: tribunal considers when "learning difficulties" become a disability

  This Northern Ireland tribunal case about the definition of disability considers the dividing line between an individual having a learning disability and simply having difficulty with literacy or numeracy.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Claire Thomas is managing associate, and Chris McAvoy, Joelle Parkinson, David Rintoul, and Gerri Hurst associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  26 March 2013

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disability discrimination: obese individual suffering from multiple symptoms disabled

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has considered whether or not an obese individual who suffered from multiple symptoms was disabled for the purposes of disability discrimination legislation.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  David Malamatenios is a partner and Colin Makin, Sandra Martins, Melissa Powys- Rodrigues and Linda Quinn are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Victoria Bell is a managing associate and Chris McAvoy, Poppy Fildes, Rosie Kight and Helen Samuel are associate solicitors at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.