Employee-favourable
2026
If your employer is considering dismissing you for health-related absence, they are expected to check your current medical position first rather than relying on old reports, especially where something like surgery or treatment could soon change the picture.
Employer-favourable
2014
Your employer's duty to make reasonable adjustments only bites once they know, or reasonably should know, that you are disabled. Vague or shifting descriptions of your symptoms can mean a tribunal finds they never had enough to go on.
Employee-favourable
2025
If your employer has conflicting medical evidence about your fitness for work, it has to resolve that conflict with occupational health before deciding your future, not just act on whichever version suits it.
