Overview

Many employers complain that increasingly complex employment and equality laws limit their freedom to take necessary or desirable commercial actions.

While this is true to a large extent, steps can be taken to mitigate the effect of some of these developments and, as is usually the case, prevention is better than cure.

This briefing from Nabarro focuses on recent decisions which highlight the intricate balance between business needs and equality duties. In particular, it highlights the steps employers can or must take:

- When dealing with exceptionally unacceptable behaviour on the part of an employee who has raised a discrimination-based grievance;
- In relation to a disabled employee whose resignation was influenced by his/her mental impairment and who, after the event, asks the employer to take them back.
- Many businesses want to appeal to a certain sector of society or the community in which they operate, yet, in doing so they may end up discriminating against employees or others.

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