The Land Registry operated a bonus scheme which paid out £900 to eligible employees in 2012. One of the rules of the scheme was that those subject to a warning in respect of sickness absence during the relevant year were ineligible to receive a bonus. Those with disciplinary warnings could be ignored at the manager’s discretion […]
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Reasonable adjustments
It has long been established that an employer is under a duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employers. The case of Coleman v Attridge Law held that those with direct discrimination claims do not themselves need to be disabled but can be associated with a disabled person. In that case it was Mrs Coleman’s […]
Sex Discrimination during pregnancy
ACAS have written an interesting article today concerning discrimination women face both during pregnancy and after childbirth. The article highlights the results of a survey carried out by another employment law firm which showed that 51% of the 2000 women surveyed felt that attitudes towards them changed when they became pregnant and 66% felt that since […]