Disability discrimination

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• 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.

• Type:

  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.

• Date:

  11 October 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disability discrimination: prohibitive cost of adjustments to relocate deaf diplomat

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office did not discriminate against a deaf diplomat when it withdrew an offer of an assignment in Kazakhstan after an assessment showed that the cost of providing lipspeakers would have been prohibitive. 

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Claire Benson is managing associate and Caroline Jacobs and Chris McAvoy are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  1 September 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disability discrimination: EAT provides guidance on definition of reasonable adjustments

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed that a proposed adjustment will constitute a "reasonable adjustment" within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 only where it prevents the provision, criterion or practice that places the disabled person at a substantial disadvantage. 

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Claire Benson is managing associate and Helen Corbett, Sinead Jones, Helen Ward and Tori O'Neil are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  29 June 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disability: use of purely objective criteria in redundancy selection not a reasonable adjustment in creative environment

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that it was not a reasonable adjustment for the subjective redundancy selection criteria by which a disabled employee who was at risk of redundancy was judged to be removed from the process. 

• Date:

  27 June 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employment status: Unpaid volunteer could not claim the protection of the Disability Rights Act or Framework Directive

  In X v Mid Sussex Citizens’ Advice Bureau and others [2011] EWCA Civ 28 CA, the Court of Appeal held that a volunteer at a Citizens’ Advice Bureau was not an employee for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and could not therefore claim disability discrimination when she was asked to stop her voluntary work.