Warning for employers over gender reassignment
A transgender woman has won a case of both direct and indirect discrimination against Condor Ferries after a staff member advised her to “use the disabled loos”. We probably already knew that following a case against the Post Office some years ago. However what was...Disability and the line between discrimination and misconduct
Imagine a scenario whereby a disabled employee finds themselves angry and upset because they cannot access something and feel excluded by reason of their disability. For example, a wheelchair user finds that the room their employer has booked for some training is in a...Case law reminder that staff are required to be flexible when their contracts provide for that
A recent case involving trains reminds us that staff have, by and large got to expect to be flexible and to work with changes that might be happening in your organisations. This is probably the case, because you’ll have something in your contracts of employment...Get serious about data protection
In HR we pride ourselves on being alive to issues like confidentiality around staff information and probably have at least a passing understanding of data protection and an individual’s right to make a subject access request, probably seeing examples of this...Redundancy announcements and maternity and bad timing
It is not unusual for an employer to have a situation where there is a reorganisation or redundancy exercise where there is a plan to announce proposals to staff at a time which coincides with staff being off work through annual leave, sickness or maternity leave....
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