Disability Discrimination: All about that case

Weightmans LLP | Employment Law Journal | May 2015 #160
The EAT seems to be making it harder than ever to advise employers on what amounts to unlawful disability discrimination, argues Phil Allen ‘In deciding a number of recent claims, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has given judgments which may appear correct on the facts, but which highlight how increasingly difficult it is to advise …

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Absenteeism: Is Fit for Work fit for purpose?

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | Employment Law Journal | April 2015 #159
Will the government’s new occupational health assessment service really end Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’, ask Eleanor Porter and Charlie Bowden ‘Having access to free occupational health advice will undoubtedly be welcomed by many small and medium-sized businesses.’In February 2011, David Cameron declared war on Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’. In a speech to launch the Welfare Reform Bill, …

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