In what is national stress awareness month, ACAS has launched a new guide on making reasonable adjustments for mental health at work. It gives guidance for employers as to what reasonable adjustments are with examples and how to respond to requests for reasonable adjustments for mental health reasons and how best to manage employees with […]
Tag: equality act
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 […]
Disability and long term sickness
It is possible in some circumstances with long term sickness to adopt the doctrine of frustration and say that the contract has been frustrated, thus bringing the employment contract to end without dismissing the employee in unfair dismissal terms. This is something I have done in practice on a few occasions for employers but it […]
Third party harassment
One controversial part of the Equality Act 2010 was s40 which covered third party harassment and the liability for employers to their staff when third parties harass them in the work place. This section will be repealed on 1st October 2013, albeit in the transitional provisions acts of harassment which occur before 1st October 2013 […]