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This case was a useful illustration of how the particular wording of job advertisements may serve to place individuals of a certain age at a disadvantage and result in employers falling foul of equality laws.

The Chief Executive claimed their rational for not hiring a black recruit was because of the attitudes of residents in care homes. They instructed Mrs Hobbs to act unlawfully, and to lie.

This case provided clear legal direction that employers would not be expected, as a reasonable adjustment, to continue to pay sick pay to an employee whose disability-related sickness absence has led to them using up all of their contractual entitlement to sick pay.