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• Is your workplace disability confident?

  A workforce that includes people from a variety of backgrounds benefits in many ways. One example of the benefits of employing disabled people, is that an organisation will prosper from the characteristics a disabled person has had to develop to deal... Posted Feb 26 2010, 12:31 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, disability discrimination, disability

• Employees and guide dogs

  Employers who are considering whether or not a job applicant accompanied by an assistance dog (commonly referred to as guide dogs) could be employed, should consider that accommodating an assistance dog could be a reasonable adjustment under the Disability... Posted Feb 03 2010, 08:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, recruitment, disability discrimination, reasonable adjustments, assistance dogs

• Employment tribunals: what would you like to see covered?

  XpertHR's case reporting has been improved with the addition of a new service providing summaries of new employment decisions, as well as the full transcripts of the cases , to go alongside our more detailed monthly summaries on a particular area... Posted Jan 27 2010, 11:53 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, termination of employment, sex discrimination, discrimination, disability discrimination, race discrimination, disability, sexual harassment, reasonable adjustments

• Policies and documents: the 10 most popular additions in 2009

  Around 50 new model policies and documents have been added to XpertHR in 2009. But what have been the most popular? The XpertHR employment intelligence blog provides a round-up. Read More... Posted Dec 24 2009, 08:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, equal opportunities, recruitment, termination of employment, employee rights, health and safety, maternity leave, discrimination, disciplinary procedures, disability discrimination, disability, pregnancy, performance management, pay freeze, mediation, swine flu

• The duty to make reasonable adjustments during recruitment

  The duty under the Disability Discrimination Act to make reasonable adjustments to prevent disabled people being disadvantaged at work applies during the recruitment process, as well as in relation to existing employees. This means employers should consider... Posted Dec 04 2009, 10:38 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, recruitment, xperthr, disability discrimination, reasonable adjustments

• Record of reasonable adjustments

  Most employers know that they have a duty to make reasonable adjustments to prevent a disabled employee from being disadvantaged by any physical feature of the premises or any working practices. But what happens when an employee is moved to a new role... Posted Nov 06 2009, 11:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, disability discrimination, reasonable adjustments

• Associative discrimination: how EAT would amend disability legislation

  In confirming that the scope of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 extends to discrimination in relation to an association with a disabled person, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has taken the unusual step of setting out how the Act might be... Posted Nov 02 2009, 01:35 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, disability discrimination, disability, carers

• Employment tribunal decisions making the headlines: 17.10.09 to 30.10.09

  A round up of links to recent employment tribunal rulings, including compensation for employees at a printing firm who were not warned of redundancy, the failure of Gloucestershire Police to make reasonable adjustments for a dyslexic police officer and... Posted Oct 30 2009, 08:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, termination of employment, employee rights, redundancy, disability discrimination, employment tribunals, disability, dismissal, unfair dismissal, police

• Employment tribunals: redundancy-related claims skyrocket

  To no one's great surprise, the number of employment tribunal claims related to redundancy went up dramatically for the period 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009, according to new Tribunals Service statistics (PDF format, 257K) (on its website). Read More... Posted Sep 30 2009, 02:28 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, age, termination of employment, sex discrimination, discrimination, redundancy, religion, disability discrimination, employment tribunals, race discrimination, disability, employment tribunal figures

• Disability discrimination in the police: employment tribunal decisions

  When the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 was first enacted, it did not extend to police constables who, technically, are office holders and not employees. However, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 was amended on 1 October 2004 to bring police... Posted Sep 22 2009, 02:18 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, discrimination, disability discrimination, disability, police

• Abercrombie & Fitch face another US discrimination case

  Abercrombie and Fitch, the US clothing retailer which has four UK stores, is facing legal action in the US on the grounds that it discriminated against a muslim teenage girl by turning her down for a sales job because she wears a headscarf. The company's... Posted Sep 21 2009, 04:31 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, discrimination, religion, disability discrimination

• Managing disability at work - IRS conference

  Next Thursday, 10 September, I'll be attending the IRS Managing Disability at Work conference in London. Jeya Thiruchelvam and I are planning to talk to some of the speakers and delegates about the issues covered during the day, and we're hoping... Posted Sep 04 2009, 05:31 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, disability discrimination, disability, irs, IRS conferences

• Stigma surrounding HIV is biggest barrier to work

  The first major piece of research looking at the working experiences of people living with HIV has concluded that the health effects of people with living with HIV have only a small, if any, impact on their working life. Read More... Posted Aug 28 2009, 11:06 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, disability discrimination, disability

• IRS conference on managing disability at work - 10 September 2009

  The IRS one-day conference on Managing disability at work - from the XpertHR Group - will cover the latest legislation, policy and practice on employing disabled people. The conference takes place in London on 10 September, and to help XpertHR subscribers... Posted Aug 28 2009, 07:33 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, discrimination, discrimination by association, disability discrimination, irs, IRS conferences

• "Too cold" workplace results in tribunal claim

  Interesting post from the Pannone law firm blog on a Tate Modern employee involved in an employment tribunal claim alleging - among other things - that her workplace is too cold. See also: Is there a maximum workplace temperature beyond which employees... Posted Aug 24 2009, 08:48 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, health and safety, disability discrimination, disability, temperature