Workplace Report December 2000

Features: Law at Work

Gender reassignment

Employees who are undergoing gender reassignment have statutory protection against discriminatory treatment. However, according to the EAT in the case of Ashton v Chief Constable of West Mercia Constabulary The Times Law Reports, 14 November 2000, this protection does not extend to cases where a person's poor work performance is linked to the side effects of the medical treatment which that person is receiving and which cause depression.