by Natalie | May 21, 2024 | Disability, reasonable adjustments
I have had a handful of recent cases where Occupational Health have advised employers in relation to employees with anxiety problems that the employee’s duties exacerbate their condition. In all of these cases a recommendation has been reducing telephone duties so...
by Natalie | Mar 21, 2024 | Disability, reasonable adjustments
If as a result of somebody’s disability they become unable to do the current role that they are employed in and the employer is looking to exit the employee from that position, they are obligated to look at alternative employment. This is the case in unfair dismissal...
by Anna Denton | Jan 23, 2019 | Disability
Given that we have had disability legislation now for 20 years, you would have thought employers might have realised by now that they have a legal duty in the Equality Act 2010 to make reasonable adjustments to level the playing field for disabled staff. A recent case...
by Anna Denton | Nov 28, 2018 | Workplace
From time-to-time employees will make claims that something about their work environment places them at risk compared to everybody else, because of their own particular medical needs. This might be someone who finds the particular temperature a problem, the lighting,...
by Anna Denton | May 21, 2018 | Disability
Dismissal is clearly an act of unfavourable treatment if the claimant can show there is a connection between that dismissal and their disability. In cases where a misconduct has been relied upon by the employer as grounds to dismiss, if that conduct arises as a...