Royal Bank of Scotland v Ashton [2010] UKEAT 0542/09

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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Disability Discrimination: EAT puts its finger on the trigger point

Louise Mason examines a recent ruling on whether employers need to adjust absence policies to avoid treating disabled staff unfairly ‘It was acknowledged that the policy made special further provisions for those with disabilities, but the EAT did not consider that it was necessary to apply these in order to discharge the duty to make …

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