Mental Health Discrimination

TUPE – substantial changes proposed by the transferee 

30 December 2024

The Employment Appeal Tribunal’s (EAT) decision in London United Busways Limited v (1) Mr V De Marchi and (2) Abellio London Limited is interesting because it explains what should happen when a worker chooses not to transfer where, in a TUPE transfer situation, faced with the question of whether to transfer to the new employer, […]

Inquiry into paternity leave and shared parental leave

27 December 2024

Hot on the heels of the campaign by The Dad Shift which highlighted that shared parental leave (SPL) is not accessible to lower incomer families (but not necessarily caused by that), the Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) has called for evidence on any of the following matters: WEC, which is conducting an inquiry into equality […]

Can non-disabled people bring claims for disability discrimination in the workplace?

23 December 2024

Usually, the first hurdle for a worker in bringing a disability discrimination case is to prove that they are disabled for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 (‘the Equality Act’). Briefly, the Equality Act states that an individual is disabled if: In most circumstances, a disability discrimination claim will not succeed unless a worker […]