Coronavirus: Is long Covid a new form of disability?

Rosenblatt | Employment Law Journal | March 2021 #218
Michelle Chance, Chris Warwick-Evans and Louisa Hartley discuss how to reduce the risk of successful discrimination claims from employees with ongoing or intermittent Covid-19 symptoms We can expect to see far more clinical diagnoses of long Covid and related employment tribunal claims in the future. A study conducted by researchers at King’s College London estimates …

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Disability discrimination: When ignorance may not be bliss

Dechert LLP | Employment Law Journal | September 2019 #203
Charles Wynn-Evans analyses recent case law on the thorny issue of when an employer is considered to have knowledge of an employee’s disability ‘While the employer’s knowledge is only one aspect of a disability discrimination claim, it is clear from these decisions that an employer cannot simply neglect consideration of whether an employee is disabled …

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Legal news: Employment update

DLA Piper UK LLP | Employment Law Journal | July/August 2018 #192
Adam Hartley rounds up the latest case law and developments affecting employers and their advisers ‘Where an individual is working in the same way as an employee but is providing their services through a PSC, they should pay broadly the same employment taxes as an employee.’ Employers may be liable for discrimination even if unaware …

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