HR

£32k award after refusing overtime on health grounds An employment tribunal has found that Sainsbury’s discriminated against a disabled employee by failing to adjust absence management processes and workplace arrangements. The case highlights a recurring HR risk: when employers know an employee is disabled, but continue applying standard procedures without adapting them to reflect the […]

£32k award for chronic migraines An Employment Tribunal has found that Medway NHS Foundation Trust unlawfully discriminated against a trainee clinical coder because of disability and failed to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010. Mrs Y Barron began working for the Trust on 7 January 2013 and, in August 2021, started a three-year

£177k award for disability discrimination A college lecturer has been awarded over £177,000 after her employer, Mid Kent College, was found to have discriminated against her on the grounds of disability, failure to make reasonable adjustments and harassment. Dr Turton was employed as a Psychology Lecturer from 2014 until she took voluntary redundancy in 2022.

The start of a new year brings new challenges for employers and their HR teams, and the Occupational Health Assessment Limited team have hit the ground running to help guide you through the challenges in the months ahead.  So welcome back to our website and let’s take a look at what we have in store

We are now rapidly approaching the end of the calendar year and the team at Occupational Health Assessment Limited would like to extend our season’s greetings to all our clients and professional contacts for the festive period ahead. But before we close for the year, we would like to conclude with a couple of housekeeping

2025 has seen Occupational Health Assessment Limited deliver on our commitment to four quarterly webinars.  These events have covered a wide range of employment, Human Resources (HR), employment law and wellbeing themes.  The webinars have been very well received by the hundreds of delegates who have attended our events. Indeed, it has been a year