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Employers should take careful note of a case in which a manager’s reference to the ‘limitations’ of a bar attendant who suffered from osteoarthritis was adjudged to be unfavourable treatment...
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Business owners and managers tend to view writing job references as an important but relatively routine task. However, the need to choose words carefully – and to take professional advice...
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Mentions of age discrimination may bring to mind images of grey-haired employees being treated less favourably than their younger colleagues. As a case concerning a teenage college student showed, however,...
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Large employers often have ‘cooling off’ policies in place that address the common situation of employees orally announcing their resignation in a stressful moment and subsequently having second thoughts. As...
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When an employee announces that she is pregnant, the prospect of maternity leave and potential managerial difficulties may well enter an employer’s mind. However, as an Employment Tribunal (ET) ruling...
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Are employers obliged to make reasonable adjustments to cater for the particular needs of disabled employees where to do so would cause disadvantage to their non-disabled colleagues? That issue was...
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