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Polsinelli Podcast - What Employers Need to Know About Obesity in the Workplace
Accessibility concerns for disabled condo owners
Accessibility Concerns for Disabled Condo Owners
Our May update includes a case on whistleblowing where the claimant’s belief in the disclosures was questioned along with whether decision makers who knew little or nothing about the disclosures could be blamed for those who...more
Our June update includes cases on whether an employer notified of an employee’s pregnancy just before termination is liable for a pregnancy dismissal, whether an employer’s future discovery of a disability makes it...more
Our April update includes cases on religious belief discrimination in the education sector, with a school chaplain preaching to pupils his views on same-sex marriage, a case considering whether the potentially disruptive...more
Our July update includes new case law on Long covid being held to be a disability, challenging the privileged status of “without prejudice” correspondence, and an unfair dismissal case in which a Tribunal made an overall...more
The impact of menopause in the workplace has recently been in the spotlight. On 23 July 2021, the UK House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee opened an inquiry titled “An invisible cohort: Why are workplaces failing...more
Was an Employer Liable for an Employee’s Discriminatory Acts on Social Media? In Forbes v LHR Airport Ltd UKEAT/0174/18/DA, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered whether an employee’s discriminatory acts on...more
Our February update considers recent developments in employment law, including cases on discrimination and equal pay. We also outline other points of note, including developments relating to right to work checks, the Equality...more
When Is Notice of Termination Effective? In Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood [2018] UKSC 22, the U.K. Supreme Court upheld last year’s Court of Appeal decision, reported by us here, that where an...more
Compare and contrast – pension based on hours reduced because of disability was not discriminatory - The Court of Appeal has upheld the EAT decision in Williams v The Trustees of Swansea University Pension & Assurance...more
Change of plan – redundancy four months after TUPE transfer was for ETO reasons - The claimant in Davies v Droylsden Academy was a venue lettings manager for a company which provided premises services for schools. She...more
A little knowledge is dangerous – awareness of the consequences of a disability not required for discrimination "arising from" disability - In City of York Council v Grosset, the EAT decided that the employer did not...more
What happened? Under the Equality Act 2010, employers are required to make reasonable adjustments where they know, or "ought reasonably to know", that an employee has a disability. This is commonly referred to as actual or...more
What happened? In the recent case of Land Registry v Houghton the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled that an employer had discriminated against disabled employees by operating a bonus scheme which disqualified employees...more