Disability Discrimination: Do not adjust your sickness policy

It was not reasonable to expect an employer to make adjustments to its absence management policy to remove disadvantage to a disabled employee, reports Jo Broadbent ‘The duty to make reasonable adjustments was found to apply to trigger points in absence management procedures.’ Absence management policies often contain a so-called ‘trigger point’. This usually means …

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