NLJ this week: Employment law brief: suspicious employers, reasonable adjustments and wage levels

Smith also explores case law on ‘one of the most contentious areas in unfair dismissal law, namely when an employee can be fairly dismissed on suspicion, short of a genuine belief in guilt’. The duty to make reasonable adjustments in disability discrimination law is another hot potato. In a recent case, the tribunal considered whether this duty included maintaining previous wage levels when the individual had to take on lesser work.

Finally, Smith covers a recent Supreme Court case on whether a change in the drafting of the Equality Act changes the substance of the law on reversal of the burden of proof.