Topic: “Anti-vaxxers” are they protected under the Equality Act, what are the implications, what are the potential human rights issues and have they made a protected disclosure?
Date: 9th December 2022
Time: 0930 – 1030
Location: Zoom
An analysis of the potential issues that arise from a small, vocal, minority that identify the vaccination programme as part of a dangerous conspiracy. The anxieties to be considered on the basis that it may give rise to discrimination claims where there is a potential of protection of a philosophical belief; the scope to argue that a vaccination requirement is an unnecessary invasion of an individual’s Article 8 right to privacy (or Article 9 freedom of thought, conscience and religion) and finally what consideration must be given to the potential of an anti-vaxxer being a whistleblower.
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PAST COVID COLLECTION SESSIONS:
Topic: COVID-19 Dismissals
Date: 19th May 2022
Time: 1630 – 1730
Location: Zoom and Park Place, 30 Park Place, Leeds LS1 2SP
Currently, there is a “pipeline” of unfair dismissal cases going through the ETs, where the reason for dismissal relates to COVID-19, in particular:
- Dismissal for failing to comply with COVID-19 safety measures
- Refusing to return to the workplace because of health and safety concerns, or
- Leaving the workplace because of health and safety concerns
- Refusing mandatory vaccination
This seminar looks at how these issues are being (or might be) dealt with and what the permanent employment law ramifications could be.
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Topic: Home or the Office?
Date: 26th May 2022
Time: 0930 – 1030
Location: Zoom
This session, on the challenges and insights around homeworking and returning to the office, specifically focuses on perceptions about whether employees should be permitted to continue homeworking, whether a return to the office is paramount, and whether a hybrid arrangement truly offers the flexibility to both employers and employees.
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Topic: Redundancies and Re-organisations in the age of COVID-19
Date: 23rd June 2022
Time: 0930 – 1030
Location: Zoom
The session will focus on the practical steps advisers should take in establishing whether a genuine redundancy situation exists or whether the employer is actually carrying out a reorganisation, the impact of the pandemic in justifying those exercises and litigation arising from it.
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