UK disability discrimination law and stammering / stuttering
Allan Tyrer Updated information for employers from Stamma (British Stammering Association) Update of links from my website to new/revised Stamma pages Recruiting someone who stammers (stamma.org) and Supporting an employee who stammers (stamma.org), for employers. Expiry of face covering regulations (England) Face masks/coverings and stammering updated on the English regulations being allowed to lapse at the end … Read more
Knowledge of disability in reasonable adjustment claims against service providers etc New page Knowledge of disability in anticipatory reasonable adjustment claims, ie reasonable adjustment claims against service providers and bodies exercising a public function. An area where the law is unclear. I’ve taken the previous discussion of this from Reasonable adjustments by service providers page … Read more
STAMMA is raising funds to formally launch its Employment Clinic and support people who stammer with work-related issues. Can you help? STAMMA (the British Stammering Association) has raised £13k of £19k needed to formally launch the Clinic. It needs to raise £6k by Christmas. Donate at STAMMA’s Employment Clinic Appeal (justgiving.com).
A worker with a stammer was dismissed and claimed disability discrimination. The tribunal held he did not have a disability within the Equality Act. Colleagues said his stammer sounded only slight. The tribunal acknowledged that a stammer may also have hidden effects. However in this case the tribunal did not have sufficient evidence that the … Read more
The EAT held that in deciding whether there is a breach of s.15 EqA (discrimination arising from disability), the dismissal itself is separate from any later internal appeal decision on it. The tribunal claim in this particular case only covered the original dismissal, at which time the employer had no knowledge of the disability. So … Read more
Petition: “No diversity without dysfluency” 22nd October is International Stammering Awareness Day. Stamma, the British Stammering Association, is calling on media organisations around the world to ensure that on television and on the radio we hear people who stammer. Not just when the subject of stammering comes up, but throughout the year, every year. Petition: … Read more
Stamma, the British Stammering Association, is calling on media organisations around the world to ensure that on television and on the radio we hear people who stammer. Not just when the subject of stammering comes up, but throughout the year, every year. Stamma explains the campaign and what you can do at No diversity without … Read more
An employment tribunal held that a worker caring for her disabled mother could claim indirect disability discrimination when asked to give up home-working. This was even though it was the mother rather than the claimant who was disabled. However being only a tribunal case, it does not set a precedent. 2021, Employment Tribunal. Full decision: … Read more
The County Court held that organisers of a music concert had breached the reasonable adjustment duty by not arranging BSL interpreters for deaf audience members. 2021, County Court. Summary of judgment: Discrimination in access to events: is there a duty to provide live sign language interpretation at music concerts? (cloisters.com) Facts Three deaf mothers were … Read more
The High Court held that the UK government had failed to make a reasonable adjustment by not providing British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters for two televised Coronavirus data briefings. However for ongoing Coronavirus briefings – given the use of detailed data slides – the court held that “in-screen” BSL interpretation was enough to satisfy the … Read more