Disability Discrimination

• Sighing at Work: When body language crosses the line into discrimination

  • PostedJune 11, 2025

  The recent employment tribunal case of Mr R Watson v Roke Manor Research Ltd ruled that sighing at a colleague may breach equality laws. Background to the case Mr R...

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• Requirement for Office Working was Associative Indirect Discrimination

  • PostedFebruary 14, 2022

  In Follows v Nationwide Building Society an Employment Tribunal has upheld a claim of indirect associative discrimination on the grounds of disability. Background The Claimant was employed on a homeworker...

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• Long Covid and Disability Discrimination

  • PostedOctober 19, 2021

  The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence describes Long Covid as symptoms of Covid-19 continuing for more than 12 weeks from infection. The current NHS list of Covid-19 symptoms...

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