Disability Discrimination When Issuing Written Warnings We receive a number of questions from companies asking whether they should be following their Sickness Absence procedure to the letter if an employee has a disability and whether absences related to someone’s...
Fly me to the…employment tribunal Can employers require employees to change their hair styles? This case concerns a major airline and whether it is acceptable to ask a member of staff to change their hair style. DLP often receives calls and emails about uniform...
Smoke and mirrors? No Smoke Without Fire… The use of e-cigarettes and vaping has become increasingly popular in the UK, both as an alternative to smoking and helping those to quit smoking altogether. But what does this mean for employers? There are 9 million smokers...
Health and wellbeing in the workplace: Are you doing enough? According to a recent government report, 1 in 4 people in the UK will have mental health problem at some point in life and 1 in 6 workers has a mental health problem right now. Workplace stress and mental...
Top Questions for August 2018 A visual summary of the top questions fielded by DLP Advisers in August 2018. Click image to enlarge Issues related to probationary periods – 23% Issues related to TUPE – 23% Issues related to sickness – 17% Issues...
The Government Rules on Adding Caste as a Protected Status Most of us are aware of the phrase ‘discrimination’ and even the two types. Direct, treating someone less preferably because of certain attributes of who they are; and indirect where practice, criterion or...
