Weekly Issue 676

Employers urged to be flexible

A recent survey by the charity Working Families has found that more than nine in 10 working parents and carers want their workplace to retain flexible working post-coronavirus (COVID-19) (...).

One-off act

In disability discrimination claims, employers have to make “reasonable adjustments” if the disabled person has been put at a substantial disadvantage by a “provision, criterion or practice” (PCP). In Ishola v Transport for London, the Court of Appeal held that, to constitute a PCP as opposed to a one-off act, there has to be evidence that it will or would be done again in the future if a similar hypothetical scenario arose (...).

Claim withdrawal

There are certain general principles governing the ways in which tribunals can assist someone without legal representation (known as a litigant in person). In Paul v Virgin Care Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal confirmed that where a litigant in person withdraws a claim, tribunals must be satisfied that their decision to do so is clear, unambiguous, and unequivocal (...).