Disability Discrimination – A Guide for Advisers

Disability Discrimination – A Guide for Advisers representing Employees and Workers

Thursday 24 October 2022, 10.30am - 12.00pm

Our seminar for employee advisors is a core part of our campaign - Disability Matters, which will run throughout October 2024 to stamp out disability discrimination in the workplace.

Fiona Martin, Director and Head of Employment Law at Martin Searle Solicitors, will show you how you can best assist employees and workers who are treated less favourably in the workplace. This might be because of their disability, or because there has been a failure to make reasonable adjustments.

Our seminar will focus on useful tactics to ensure that employees with disabilities are treated fairly. We will also explain what steps to take if they are being treated unfavourably or if reasonable adjustments are not being considered. Finally, we will also discuss examples of what employers should be doing to ensure an equal playing field for disabled staff.

Topics covered in the session will include:

• What is a mental or physical disability under the Equality Act?
• When will an employer be considered to be on notice of disability?
• Helping employees and workers to raise formal grievances
• Appealing grievance outcomes
• What constitutes a reasonable adjustment?
• How to make sure reasonable adjustments are carried out
• How to handle sickness or disability-related disciplinary and capability processes
• Long and short-term sickness absence
• Employee and worker rights
• The right to contractual and statutory sick pay

Please submit written questions when you register for this seminar and you will also have the opportunity to ask questions at the end.

This is a virtual seminar held on Zoom – attendees will be sent details on how to join the session beforehand.

Host or Publisher Martin Searle Solicitors