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Opinion: A huge step for carers
By Lucy McLynn, partner, Bates Wells & Braithwaite, solicitors for
Sharon Coleman,
Nursery World,
28 August 2008
The case of Sharon Coleman, the mother of a disabled child who took a legal case to Europe to establish that she herself was protected from disability discrimination, has had a lot of coverage in the media. Much of it, however, has been misleading. 'Six million carers win right to flexible working', shouted the headlines.
Actually, the case was not about a right to flexible working at all. What Ms Coleman was saying was that she should have been treated in the same way as colleagues who were parents of non-disabled children. So, where colleagues were allowed to work from home or to...
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