Just in case you were wondering … …
In last month’s edition we featured the case of a Polish cleaner who claimed her lack of English, which she argued had resulted in her being ‘tricked’ out of her entitlement to the NMW, should be classed as a disability. A tribunal in Bedford struck out her disability discrimination claim ruling that an individual’s language difficulties are not capable of being classed as an impairment within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act.
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