Late News…
by Philip
In late news, the EAT has referred the issue of associative discrimination to the ECJ in the decision here. The decision may cause your babel fish trouble in deciphering it’s meaning. Applying occam’s razor to the decision, the point can be put succintly in this way: Associative discrimination is discrimination based on a third party ’s disability, in this case the child of an employee. The disability discrimination alleged was a failure by the employer to allow the employee time off to look after her disabled child.Is that associative discrimination covered by the DDA? The point has now been referred to the ECJ to decide whether the DDA should be interpreted in such a purposive way, so that a non disabled person can claim disability discrimination. Food for thought.
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