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End of COVID-19 adjusted right to work checks By Shahjahan Ali Traditionally, employers complied with their duties to prevent illegal working by carrying out right to work checks in person with there being only limited options to carry these out remotely or online. Social distancing rules and COVID-19 made it…
Unfair dismissal: Right of appeal in redundancy dismissals By Hilary Larter The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the absence of any appeal does not of itself make a redundancy dismissal unfair, but that it is one of the many factors to be considered in determining fairness.
Disability discrimination: Employer had no knowledge of disability By Hilary Larter The EAT has upheld a decision that an employee was not disabled or, if he was, that his employer had no knowledge of any disability.
Disability discrimination: Reasonable adjustments prevented application of absence management policy being discriminatory By Hilary Larter The EAT has held that an employer who had redeployed a disabled employee with protected pay and supported her unsuccessful attempts to find alternative roles had not failed in its duty to make reasonable adjustments.
Disability discrimination: Indefinite pay protection not a reasonable adjustment By Hilary Larter Indefinite pay protection for a disabled employee who moved roles would not have been a reasonable adjustment.
Entitlement to insured income protection: Importance of contractual wording By Hilary Larter The EAT has upheld a tribunal decision requiring an employer to make payments directly to an employee in respect of annual increases to his long-term sickness income protection, despite the fact the insurer had ceased to cover such increases years…
Employment Matters - August 2021 By Hilary Larter DAC Beachcroft's Employment Matters focuses on some of the most interesting cases and events occurring within the Employment Law sector.
Sexual harassment: Government to introduce a new duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment By Hilary Larter The Government Equalities Office has published its response to the consultation on sexual harassment in the workplace. The consultation ran from 11 July to 2 October 2019.
Tribunal awards: Victim of harassment awarded compensation for career long loss By Hilary Larter The EAT has upheld a tribunal’s decision to calculate compensation for direct sexual orientation discrimination and harassment on the basis of career long loss.
Harassment: Constructive dismissal can amount to an act of unlawful harassment By Hilary Larter The EAT has held that a constructive dismissal can constitute an act of discriminatory harassment. This is a departure from previous case law.
