by Anna Denton | Oct 16, 2021 | Equality Act, Menopause
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has only ever heard two cases in this space. Most recently they dealt with the second case that’s come before them where essentially they told the lower Tribunal off for failing to recognise the employee’s disability and potential sex...
by Anna Denton | Sep 30, 2021 | Flexible Working
The Government has launched a consultation relating to some amendments to the flexible working legislation making political mileage out of a willingness to make a request of flexible working a day 1 right, but what will their proposals really mean? The current system...
by Anna Denton | Sep 21, 2021 | Mental health, suicide awareness
Friday, 10th September was Suicide Awareness Day. By coincidence I ended up having the same conversation twice with two different organisations. In both cases, the employer had an employee who was on long term sick and where a pattern of contact with the employer had...
by Anna Denton | Sep 16, 2021 | associative discrimination, Disability discrimination
In 2010, when the Equality Act was updated, the concept of associative discrimination was enshrined within the legislation as regards direct discrimination. This followed the famous Coleman case, where the protection had been extended to the employee not because of...
by Anna Denton | Aug 26, 2021 | maternity leave, redundancy
Our latest video is available to view on the Refreshing Law YouTube channel – please click here to watch Anna discussing ‘maternity leave, redundancy and suitable alternative employment’. Refreshing Law Ltd – 25 August...