Disability

Technology is on hand to make working life easier for employees with visual impairments. Robin Christopherson looks at how employers...

An employer did not commit discrimination arising from disability against a job applicant whose job offer to work at a...

An NHS trust discriminated against an employee with cancer who attended a competitive interview during a redeployment exercise, an employment...

Employers increasingly need to assess and address autism issues in the workplace without discrimination. Lucy Kenyon explains.
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A police marksman has taken two police forces to an employment tribunal after being removed from his post after he...

Talking to a computer using voice-recognition software may enable some disabled staff to work and could help prevent repetitive strain...

OH nurses are involved in disability assessments for PIP, a government scheme assessing the level of income support disabled people...

Consultant editor Darren Newman considers a recent Employment Appeal Tribunal decision involving the concept of diabetes as a disability for...

Dr Steve Boorman discusses the opportunities created by the establishment of the new single organisation for occupational health (OH) professionals,...

Occupational therapists (OTs) and occupational health professionals are frequently mistaken for each other. OTs Jain Holmes and Anne Byrne aim...

Much of Europe and the US faces a conundrum, the authors of a recent study suggest: an increasing proportion of...

Redundancies are rarely straightforward and, if it involves a disabled employee, your standard procedures may need to be adjusted. Akshay...