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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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    Met Police discriminated against officer with hearing loss, tribunal finds

    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Jan 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Jan 2023

    The Metropolitan Police indirectly discriminated against a trainee police constable with hearing loss when it failed to make reasonable adjustments.

    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News
    • Discrimination

    One in five suffer discrimination at work

    by Ashleigh Webber 8 Nov 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 8 Nov 2022

    One in five workers say they have experienced workplace discrimination in the past year, with low-paid workers twice as likely...

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Disability discrimination
    • Disability

    TUC finds disability pay gap has widened

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Nov 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Nov 2022

    The pay gap for disabled people has increased to the point that disabled people effectively work for free for the last 54 days of the year and stop being paid today (7 November).

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    • Coronavirus
    • Long Covid

    Covid leave: Special leave was not discriminatory, finds EAT

    by Richard Fox 2 Sep 2022
    by Richard Fox 2 Sep 2022

    As more case law begins to emerge around employers’ actions during the pandemic, Richard Fox looks at a recent Employment...

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Disability discrimination
    • Disability

    HMRC employee without driving licence wins disability discrimination claim

    by Jo Faragher 19 Aug 2022
    by Jo Faragher 19 Aug 2022

    An HMRC worker has won his claim for disability discrimination and indirect discrimination after he was rejected for a role because he did not have a driving licence. 

    • Case law
    • Disability discrimination
    • Long Covid

    Long Covid: what tribunal’s disability ruling means for HR

    by Richard Fox and Özlem Mehmet 23 Jun 2022
    by Richard Fox and Özlem Mehmet 23 Jun 2022

    An employment tribunal ruling confirms that, in the case of one worker, long Covid amounted to a disability.

    • Reasonable adjustments
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    • NHS

    NHS trust discriminated against nurse with migraines

    by Ashleigh Webber 7 Jun 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 7 Jun 2022

    An NHS nurse who lost her job after taking too many sick days for her migraines, anxiety and depression was...

    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News
    • Disability

    Menopausal worker loses sex and disability discrimination claim

    by Jo Faragher 27 May 2022
    by Jo Faragher 27 May 2022

    A menopausal worker has lost her claims for sex and disability discrimination at a tribunal despite being told she was...

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Coronavirus
    • Disability discrimination

    EHRC: Not all long Covid cases amount to disability

    by Ashleigh Webber 10 May 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 10 May 2022

    Is long Covid a disability? The EHRC says it depends on each case.

    • Disability discrimination
    • Disability
    • Latest News

    Solicitor unfairly dismissed during cancer recovery awarded £17k

    by Ashleigh Webber 6 May 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 6 May 2022

    In Ms E Onibere v Rodman Pearce Solicitors Ltd, a tribunal ruled an employee with cancer was unfairly dismissed and discriminated against.

    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News
    • Discrimination

    Steep rise in employment tribunal claims over neurodiversity discrimination

    by Adam McCulloch 2 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 2 May 2022

    Employment tribunals in which employees alleged they were discriminated against for being ‘neurodiverse’ rose by a third last year.

    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News
    • Gender pay gap

    Disability pay gap wider than in 2014

    by Adam McCulloch 29 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 29 Apr 2022

    Slight widening of gap since 2014, as the ONS reveals that the disability pay gap has consistently been wider for disabled men than for disabled women.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Disability discrimination
    • Disability

    Boxer loses disability discrimination claim

    by Jo Faragher 1 Apr 2022
    by Jo Faragher 1 Apr 2022

    A boxer who sustained a head injury during a fight has lost his claim for disability discrimination against Scottish Power.

    • Disability discrimination
    • Disability
    • Latest News

    Sainsbury’s discriminated against worker with brain injury, finds tribunal

    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Mar 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Mar 2022

    Sainsbury's discriminated against a worker with a brain injury who had been accused of groping female staff and using inappropriate language, an employment tribunal has found.

    • Vexatious claims
    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News

    Serial claimant banned after ‘weaponising’ employment tribunal system

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Mar 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Mar 2022

    A man who has made more than 40 employment claims against a variety of companies has been banned from using the tribunals service.

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