Employers must assess workplace risks to pregnant women, EAT rules

The failure of a nursing home to carry out an assessment of the risk posed by working conditions for new or expectant mothers was sex discrimination, according to a recent decision made by the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

Mrs Hardman had been employed as a care assistant at the Orchard Lodge Nursing Home, Birkenhead from July 1999. When she became pregnant, the Nursing Home failed to carry out a risk assessment of her working conditions, which included lifting elderly patients, or to offer he... (160 more words)

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