Is my disability a shield against performance management?

20 August 2025

Yes and no.  Yes, because your employer must make allowances for the impact of your disability on your ability to do your job and in particular is legally obliged to make reasonable adjustments that will permit your full and effective participation in the workplace.  Where employees and employers sometimes come to blows is in not […]

#SarahSurviving: GCS v The Survivors’ Network

28 July 2025

For more than three years’ didlaw has supported the rape and sexual abuse survivor, turned feminist campaigner #SarahSurviving with her claims for harassment and indirect discrimination against the rape crisis service, The Survivors’ Network. The facts of #SarahSurviving’s case can be found here: Help Sarah’s Legal Challenge to Secure Female Only Rape Crisis Therapy The […]

Can I ask for reasonable adjustments in my post-termination appeal?

21 July 2025

Yes.  Reasonable adjustments extend throughout the employment relationship and beyond. They apply in pre-contract conditions such as interviews and they may apply once the employment relationship has ended or is ending.  It is right and logical that reasonable adjustments are considered in the context of a post-termination appeal against dismissal because reasonable adjustments are aimed […]

What is the Fair Work Agency?

28 March 2025

The Fair Work Agency is a creation of the Labour Government. Labour proposes to create a new stateenforcement body for employment rights. For now the proposed name is the Fair Work Agency althoughthis is not yet official. The most recent amendments to the Employment Rights Bill indicate that it will provide as follows: These amendments […]

Future loss arising from discrimination

26 March 2025

In Gourlay v West Dunbartonshire Council, Mr Gourlay was dismissed for grossmisconduct. He claimed that he had developed a serious depressive illness as a resultof his discriminatory treatment by West Dunbartonshire Council. He brought claims for unfair dismissal, disability discrimination and victimisation. Hisdisabilities were MS, Type II diabetes along with severe depression. His claimssucceeded. The employment tribunal accepted […]

The dismissal of an Ofsted inspector for a single incident was unfair

24 March 2025

The Court of Appeal has found in Hewston v OFSTED that the dismissal of an OFSTED inspector for a single incident was unfair. Mr Hewston was an experienced OFSED inspector with a clean disciplinary record. During a school visit hetouched a pupil’s forehead to brush water off his face and shoulder because the child had […]

What’s the latest on hybrid and remote working?

21 March 2025

On 5 March 2025, the House of Lords Committee on Home-based Working published a call for written evidence for its inquiry into the effects and future development of remote and hybrid working in the UK. The Committee will address the challenges and opportunities of remote and hybrid working for workers and employers, the impact of […]

I resigned in the heat of the moment and now regret it. What are my options?

19 March 2025

If you have resigned from your job in the heat of the moment this may not be the end of the story for you.  Employers can be made to understand that sometimes emotions (and tempers) can run high and you might end up doing something you regret. If this has happened to you, what should […]

Termination of a law firm partner was direct age discrimination

17 March 2025

In Scott v Walker Morris LLP an employment tribunal has held that a law firm directly discriminated against a partner because of age when it refused his request to extend his membership under its retirement policy. Under that policy, a partner who wished to continue working beyond 60 could apply to extend their membership period […]