Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)
The EAT upheld an employment tribunal finding that Quinn had been discriminated against and that her employer had suspended her because of its “paternalistic and patronising attitude” rather than for any real health and safety reasons. It was the employer’s responsibility to justify the suspension by providing evidence of the gravity of the risk and the impossibility of avoiding it by making appropriate adjustments to her hours and conditions of work. It had done none of these things.
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