Disability inclusion: What has the pandemic done for equal opportunities?

Fox Williams LLP | Employment Law Journal | February 2022 #227
Jane Mann, Ed Livingstone and Kerry Kirby report on the impact of the remote working revolution over the past two years on employers’ duties towards disabled employees and job applicants, and give some practical tips on disability inclusion in the post-Covid workplace Now is a good time for employers to reassess the range of adjustments …

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Disability Discrimination: Do not adjust your sickness policy

Hogan Lovells | Employment Law Journal | February 2016 #167
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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