Fertility treatment
Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.
Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.
This case is a prime example of the problems that can occur in a workplace when a member of staff is undergoing IVF treatment in a bid to get pregnant.
In London Borough of Greenwich v Robinson the EAT has overruled the finding of an industrial tribunal that it was indirectly discriminatory against women to treat absence resulting from IVF treatment as part of an employee's sickness record for redundancy selection purposes.
A woman whose absence resulting from IVF treatment was treated as part of her sickness record for redundancy purposes was unlawfully discriminated against on the grounds of sex, rules an Ashford industrial tribunal (Chair: G W Davies) in Robinson v London Borough of Greenwich.
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