Disability Law: Ruling narrows scope of associative discrimination

Employees must have a disability themselves for the duty to make reasonable adjustments to apply, reports Phil Allen ‘Disability discrimination law can become very complicated when trying to apply it to many genuine day-to-day employee issues.’A Court of Appeal judgment has placed a significant curb on the extent of the duty to make reasonable adjustments …
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Maternity Rights: Surrogacy – the European and UK position

Julian Yew and Charlotte Logan discuss employees’ rights in a surrogacy situation ‘The ECJ held that a mother who has had a baby through a surrogate cannot, by definition, be subject to less favourable treatment related to her pregnancy, given that she has not been pregnant with that baby.’ The statutory rights of employees who …
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