Disability discrimination may occur Attendance bonuses can leave employers vulnerable to indirect discrimination due to disability, sex and even religion if rewards are given for full attendance without making allowances for protected reasons why employees...

Mrs O'Connor had been employed by DL Insurance Services in a customer support role since June 2005 DL recognised she was disabled and in 2009 she made a request to work flexibly as her illness was having an effect on her working patterns. The Company...

IT manager constructively dismissed after being denied a company van is awarded £10,000 Mr A Rawlinson worked as an IT Support Manager for Catch22 Multi Academies Trust (MAT), servicing 5 schools within the Trust, all in different locations. He was...

Awarded more than £4,000 in unpaid wages A college student on a zero-hours contract has been awarded more than £4,000 in unpaid wages, despite taking up a new full-time job midway through a nine-month suspension from her zero hours’ role. The EAT ruled...

Depressed worker fired for making ‘offensive’ drawings was unfairly dismissed In a similar set of circumstances to the “Horror film case”, a data analyst who was fired for gross misconduct, after his colleagues discovered a notebook containing “sexually...

This is the case of the former head of English who was suffering from stress exacerbated by cystic fibrosis He was dismissed after screening an 18-rated horror movie to 15 and 16-year-olds despite explaining in mitigation that his judgement was affected by...