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Disability

This topic contains all articles and case reports dealing with Disability Discrimination. They are shown in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published being listed first.

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Law firm Wragge & Co has made diversity one of its key concerns, with a focus on disability and race. Sue Johnstone looks at the initiatives that led to the firm receiving a Disability Excellence Award.

This is the first of a series of "How to" guides, explaining the key issues for employers in relation to current difficult areas of discrimination law and practice. We start with a guide from Penny McMillan on employers' responsibilities towards obese employees.

A new guide to the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons has been produced by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to help disabled people know what their rights are and how to use them.

Our focus this month is on disability. Our features include organisations that provide training and support to help disabled people get into the jobs market.

Our focus this month is on disability. Our features include organisations that provide training and support to help disabled people get into the jobs market. (...more)

The Realistic Opportunities for Supported Employment project provides individual job coaches to people with learning disabilities. Kate Godwin examines how this intensive support enables them to make the transition into paid work.

MITIE’s Real Apprentice programme gives disabled jobseekers an opportunity to gain work-related skills and experience on one of the company’s client sites and guarantees a reference and job interview for those who successfully complete the course. Carol Foster explains how it works.

The Employers Forum on Disability has identified “non-visible disabilities” as an area that employers need to consider carefully. Here, the EFD explains why it has recently issued guidance on this issue.

Government policies and objectives around disability have encouraged the development of user-led organisations that can provide services and support across a variety of fields. Here we look at how one organisation – Breakthrough UK Ltd – has achieved this.

The statutory definition of disability requires that the effect of an impairment has to be “long term”. Patel v Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council (EAT, 15 Jan 2010)

In deciding that an employer had not failed to make a reasonable adjustment for a disabled claimant, an employment tribunal takes account of the budget constraints of a public authority and its responsibility to address absences affecting patient care. Gibbons v Dartford & Gravesend NHS Trust (ET/1101264/09, 1 Apr 2010)

An employment tribunal holds that an employer failed to make reasonable adjustments by not taking steps to hold a meeting face to face with the claimant, allowing her to express concerns that, as a deaf person, she was not able to raise satisfactorily in any other way – for example, through a phone call. Cottrell v North Tyneside Disability Forum (ET/2506378/08, 31 Mar 2010)

In deciding whether the claimant’s depression was likely to be a longterm impairment, the tribunal takes into account the fact that the circumstances that led to the condition were continuing. It held, on the basis of medical evidence, that the depression was likely to continue as long as the “unpleasant circumstances” that caused it continued. Curran v Essex County Council (ET/3200157/08, 7 May 2010)

As the manager responsible for communicating with a disabled employee who was off sick did not know that she was disabled, the employment tribunal found that his failure to communicate was not on grounds of, or related to, her disability. Prashar v London Borough of Merton (ET/2303433/09, 10 May 2010)

An employment tribunal holds that an employer who monitored and kept notes on an employee’s conduct should have made reasonable adjustments as his behaviour was likely to be a manifestation of his mental impairment. Perry v ISS Facility Services Limited (ET/2500000/2010, 3 Jun 2010)

The latest report from the Tribunals Service shows that there were sizeable increases in the number of discrimination cases brought relating to all types of discrimination except sex discrimination (down 2%). The largest increase was in relation to age claims, which rose by 37% and are now not far behind the level of race claims.

Disability charities, and even a government minister, are worried about the impact that benefit changes might have on disabled people.

Progress towards teaching children to have positive attitudes towards disabled people has been slow and “patchy”, according to a new study into primary schools from the Economic and Social Research Council.

In this second part of our annual survey of compensation awards, we look at disability, age, sexual orientation and religion or belief discrimination, as well as those cases that involve more than one jurisdiction. As in previous years, we find that disability discrimination attracts the highest amounts. (...more)

The EAT has upheld an employment tribunal finding that it would have been a reasonable adjustment to swap the job of a serving police officer with chronic anxiety syndrome with that of another police constable. Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police v Jelic (EAT, 29 Apr 2010)