Disability discrimination

New and updated

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  FAQs

  Is someone with HIV, cancer or multiple sclerosis protected from disability discrimination only at the point that the condition affects their ability to carry out day-to-day activities?

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  What is the right to bring a claim for discrimination arising from disability under the Equality Act 2010?

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  FAQs

  Should an employer that does not have disabled employees concern itself with good practice in disability?

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  FAQs

  If an employee who has been diagnosed with diabetes requests to work from home, does the employer have to agree to the request?

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  FAQs

  Are there any risks attached to asking job candidates about the number of days' sickness absence they have had in the past year?

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  FAQs

  For the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 does a mental illness have to be clinically well recognised?

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  FAQs

  Is alcohol addiction covered by the disability provisions of the Equality Act 2010?

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  FAQs

  Is it permissible for an employer to state in a job advert that applicants must hold a full driving licence?

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  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Ceri Hughes, David Parry, and Carly Mather, associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

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  Employment law cases

  Failure to discount disability-related absences in redundancy scoring was discrimination

  This case deals with a common issue in redundancy situations: the discounting of disability-related absences when scoring against a "sickness absence" criterion.