Disability discrimination

New and updated

• Type:

  Training

  Long-term sickness - line manager training

  Updated to reflect that nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and physiotherapists can issue fit notes from 1 July 2022.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Menopause: Failure to make reasonable adjustments

  In Lynskey v Direct Line Insurance Services Ltd, an employment tribunal held that the employer discriminated against the employee by failing to make reasonable adjustments to account for her menopause symptoms, and that disciplinary action taken over her performance issues was unlawful discrimination arising from her disability.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Discrimination law: The protected characteristics

  Updated to include a reference to Thomas v Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, in which the EAT considered if a belief in English nationalism amounted to a protected philosophical belief.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disability discrimination: Adjustments should have been made to redundancy selection process

  In Jandu v Marks and Spencer plc ET/2200275/21, an employment tribunal held that the retailer had breached its duty to make reasonable adjustments by failing to discount any disability-related effects when assessing the employee against the redundancy selection criteria.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Supporting disabled employees and job candidates: Why is this so important?

  We explore the reasons why organisations are increasingly finding that hiring and retaining disabled employees through being a disability-confident employer is a strategic imperative.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Supporting disabled employees and job candidates: Inclusive recruitment

  We look at how to attract people with disabilities to the organisation and making the application, interview and selection processes inclusive for disabled candidates.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Supporting disabled employees and job candidates: Inclusive employment

  We examine how to create a safe, fulfilling and inclusive workplace for disabled employees during the whole employee lifecycle.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Supporting disabled employees and job candidates: Reasonable adjustments

  We explore how to approach reasonable adjustments for disabled employees to enable them to perform to the best of their ability.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Supporting disabled employees and job candidates: Monitoring

  We discuss how to evaluate the success of your strategies to attract and retain disabled employees.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Coronavirus case law round up: Discrimination and whistleblowing

  We look at three cases dealing with issues around discrimination and whistleblowing, arising from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.