Lewisham London Borough Council v Malcolm [2008] UKHL 43

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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Equality Act: Duties on public bodies

Clare Parkinson examines the new single public sector equality duty in light of a recent finding that HMRC’s treatment of a disabled woman was discriminatory ‘Section 149 of the Equality Act widens the scope of the existing public sector equality general duties by requiring public authorities to have due regard to the need to “advance” …

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