Issue 839

Workplace dress codes

A study has found that most minority ethnic job applicants have real concerns about how a potential employer may react to the way they dress or wear their hair.

Rectifying a mistake

Although there are strict deadlines for lodging claims, tribunals can exercise a limited discretion depending on the circumstances that resulted in missing it.

Online application

The law states that if an employer should have known the impact of someone’s impairment on, say, applying for a job, then they effectively had knowledge of it.