May 9, 2018
Source: SU College of Law News
Companies grapple with growing legal obligations to disabled people
(Financial Times | May 9, 2018) Unite, the UK union, helped win a legal victory in March that expanded safeguards against discrimination in the workplace established under the 2010 Equality Act to those with “pre-cancer”.
The ruling added to the range of workplace protections for disabled people in the UK. However, a challenge remains in knowing when the law should be applied, particularly in the case of mental health disabilities.
“It can be very difficult to work out whether someone is suffering from a particular impairment,” says Simon Kerr-Davis, a lawyer in the London employment practice at Linklaters. “But once that’s established, most employers are pretty clear as to what their obligations should be.” The scope of employer obligations has expanded in recent decades. In the US, the Americans with Disabilities Act became law in 1990. In the EU, provisions on disabilities were included in the Employment Equality Directive, adopted by member states in 2000. Continue Reading
BBI is proud to co-sponsor the launch of Stephen Kuusisto’s newest memoir, Have Dog, Will Travel. It is a part of “Disabilities as Ways of Knowing: A Series of Creative Writing Conversations”. Professor Kuusisto will be hosting a reading at 7:30PM in Watson Theater at Syracuse University on Monday, March 19, 2018.
