Health and wellbeing

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  FAQs

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

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  FAQs

  What should an employer do if it receives a fit note saying that an employee "may be fit for work taking account of the following advice"?

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  Policies and procedures

  Second job policy

  A model policy to set out guidelines on when employees can take a second job.

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  FAQs

  What should a manager do if they suspect that an employee has an alcohol or drugs dependency?

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  FAQs

  Will an employee who takes time off for fertility treatment be entitled to statutory or contractual sick pay?

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  FAQs

  Where an employer suspects that an employee is working under the influence of alcohol, what action can it take?

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  FAQs

  What are the stress management standards issued by the Health and Safety Executive?

• Date:

  1 March 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Identified for redundancy because of IVF absence

  A woman whose absence resulting from IVF treatment was treated as part of her sickness record for redundancy purposes was unlawfully discriminated against on the grounds of sex, rules an Ashford industrial tribunal (Chair: G W Davies) in Robinson v London Borough of Greenwich.