Labour Research (October 2000)

Law Matters

EAT ruling on homeworking

Working at home

The EAT has ruled that an employer's refusal to allow an employee to

work from home to enable her to care for her child could amount to

indirect sex discrimination. The ruling does not mean that employers

have to concede such a request but that they have to justify their

reasons for turning it down.


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