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Disability discrimination

Disabled people are protected in the workplace against direct and indirect disability discrimination, harassment and victimisation because of their disability. Disability discrimination legislation covers disabled employees, but also disabled job applicants in the recruitment process.

Under the Equality Act 2010, an employer has an active duty to make reasonable adjustments for a disabled person where its policies or practices, or physical feature of its premises, put a disabled employee at a substantial disadvantage in comparison with a non-disabled person.


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    Union rep teacher awarded £370k for unfair dismissal

    by Rob Moss 15 May 2025
    by Rob Moss 15 May 2025

    Teacher and union rep awarded £370,000 after head teacher unfairly dismissed her in ‘revenge’ for her opposing lesson observations plan.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • NHS
    • Constructive dismissal

    NHS worker awarded £29k after Darth Vader comparison

    by Rob Moss 8 May 2025
    by Rob Moss 8 May 2025

    NHS worker awarded £29,000 by employment tribunal after being assigned Darth Vader personality type in Star Wars-themed Myers-Briggs exercise.

    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News
    • Discipline and grievances

    Apprentice with ADHD was fairly dismissed after lunch incident

    by Adam McCulloch 10 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 10 Apr 2025

    An employment tribunal has ruled against a garage apprentice who said his ADHD caused him to be unfairly dismissed from...

    • Social mobility
    • Sexual harassment
    • Employment law

    Eight new equality laws in the pipeline

    by Rob Moss 10 Apr 2025
    by Rob Moss 10 Apr 2025

    Rob Moss examines eight potential new equality laws, including race and disability equal pay rules and dual discrimination claims.

    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News
    • Discrimination

    Police sergeant’s ‘scattergun’ allegations dismissed by tribunal

    by Jo Faragher 17 Mar 2025
    by Jo Faragher 17 Mar 2025

    A Met Police sergeant who brought 271 individual allegations to an employment tribunal has had all claims dismissed.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Disability
    • Disability discrimination

    One in 10 firms taken to tribunal because of neurodiversity conflicts

    by Nic Paton 14 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 14 Mar 2025

    More than one in 10 organisations (13%) have been involved in employment tribunals relating to neurodiversity, worrying new research has...

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Disability discrimination
    • Disability

    Eight in 10 disabled staff feel burnout as cuts loom

    by Jo Faragher 12 Mar 2025
    by Jo Faragher 12 Mar 2025

    Almost eight in 10 disabled employees feel burnt out, almost double the rate of their non-disabled colleagues.

    • Right to work
    • Disability discrimination
    • Education

    Unfairly dismissed Edinburgh professor awarded £1m

    by Rob Moss 26 Feb 2025
    by Rob Moss 26 Feb 2025

    Engineering professor unfairly dismissed by the University of Edinburgh awarded more than £1m after a 13-year legal battle.

    • Age discrimination
    • Acas
    • Constructive dismissal

    Menopause-related tribunal claims treble in two years

    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 25 Feb 2025
    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 25 Feb 2025

    The number of menopause-related employment tribunal claims more than trebles in two years, new analysis reveals.

    • Employee relations
    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News

    Three in five tribunal claims settled before final hearing

    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 11 Feb 2025
    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 11 Feb 2025

    More than three in five (62%) of employment tribunal claims were settled before their final hearing, according to new figures.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Employment law
    • Disability discrimination

    Law firm partners with neurodiversity training specialist

    by Rob Moss 6 Feb 2025
    by Rob Moss 6 Feb 2025

    Geldards law firm partners with NeuroUniverse to help improve treatment of neurodivergent workers and reduce disability discrimination.

    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News
    • Mental health

    Worker wanting to WFH from Pakistan was unfairly dismissed

    by Rob Moss 4 Feb 2025
    by Rob Moss 4 Feb 2025

    Software developer refused her request to WFH in Pakistan unfairly dismissed by employer after it failed to provide sufficient notice.

    • Coronavirus
    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News

    Hospital porter who refused to wear mask fairly dismissed

    by Jo Faragher 2 Jan 2025
    by Jo Faragher 2 Jan 2025

    A hospital porter who was sacked for refusing to wear a face mask during the Covid pandemic has lost his claim for unfair dismissal and discrimination.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Disability discrimination
    • Disability

    Security guard launches disability claim against Science Museum

    by Jo Faragher 18 Nov 2024
    by Jo Faragher 18 Nov 2024

    A security guard at the Science Museum in London is taking her employer to tribunal for failing to supply her with a suitable chair to sit on at work.

    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News
    • Employment tribunals

    Married at First Sight star loses EE dismissal claim

    by Jo Faragher 1 Nov 2024
    by Jo Faragher 1 Nov 2024

    A reality TV star who worked for EE has lost an unfair dismissal claim against his former employer.

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