Disability discrimination

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  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamentenios are partners and Melissa Powys-Rogrigues, Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamentenios are partners and Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employee discriminated against because of his wife's disability

  As this case demonstrates, it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an employee by treating him or her less favourably than others because of someone else's disability. 

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  Employment law cases

  Disability discrimination: BA fails to make reasonable adjustments within a reasonable timescale

  In this case, the employment tribunal found that British Airways plc's (BA's) failure to transfer one of its cabin crew, whose disability meant he could no longer undertake long-haul flying duties, to short-haul flights within a reasonable timescale amounted to a failure to make reasonable adjustments.

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  Employment law cases

  Disability: tribunal recommends that retailer Iceland train HR staff and senior management in mental health issues

  This is a rare example, along with Stone v Ramsay Health Care UK Operations Ltd ET/1400762/11, of an employment tribunal making wide-ranging recommendations to an employer, in this case asking it to provide equal opportunities training for sections of its HR function and senior management.

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  Employment law cases

  Discrimination arising from disability: lecturer forced to move to inferior contract wins Equality Act claim

  This case is a useful early example, along with McGraw v London Ambulance Service NHS Trust ET/3301865/11, of how employment tribunals are approaching the new concept of "discrimination arising from disability" under the Equality Act 2010. This claimant succeeded in showing that his employer's requirement that he move to a new contract was unfavourable treatment that arose in consequence of his disability and the employer's actions were not justified.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Dinu Suntook, Cane Pickersgill and Poppy Fildes are all associates at Addleshaw Goddard. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Policies and procedures

  Assistance dogs at work policy

  A model assistance dogs policy to support an inclusive and accessible workplace for disabled employees.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Chris McAvoy, Sarah Wade, David Rintoul, Helen Corbett and Kristin Aarvik are associate solicitors at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disability: employee refused to cooperate over reasonable adjustments to "engineer" discrimination claim

  The employer in this case was found to have discriminated against a disabled worker whom it dismissed after it was revealed that she is disabled. However, the tribunal reduced the compensation to zero because the employee's uncooperative behaviour was designed to prompt her dismissal so that she could bring a tribunal claim.