Introduction
This article explores the growing phenomenon of long COVID – the continuation of serious symptoms and effects for a significant period after a person s initial COVID-19 infection and illness. Is disability discrimination law likely to apply in this context and how should employers approach this issue?
COVID-19 was first identified in China towards the end of 2019 and by the end of 2020 it has been contracted by approximately 60 million people worldwide leading to 1.4 million deaths. While many who have experienced COVID-19 have fully recovered, increasing numbers of people who have overcome the immediate symptoms are reporting more prolonged effects.
Fatigue, pain, headaches, breathing difficulties, muscle weakness, lasting fever, anxiety and stress are some of the reported long-term adverse effects of COVID-19, according to individuals suffering from what is coming to be known as long COVID – also sometimes referred to as post-COVID syndrome or long-tail C
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The Supreme Court’s ruling against Mastercard will make it easier for group damages claims to proceed to trial, commentators have said. However, the card issuer’s solicitors have stressed the ‘very unusual circumstances’ of the judgment, in which justices were divided on key issues.
In a widely awaited judgment, the Supreme Court today
dismissed Mastercard’s appeal, finding that a 2017 Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) judgment was undermined by errors of law. The case has now been remitted to the tribunal for reconsideration.
In 2017 the CAT refused to certify the case, which is brought by former financial services ombudsman Walter Merricks CBE on behalf of 46 million credit and debit card holders. It is the first major opt-out action brought under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and is believed to be the largest damages claim ever brought in the UK, at an estimated £14bn.