Webinar - Reasonable adjustments & disability discrimination: The lowdown
20 November 2025
A 40-minute webinar for HR professionals and Line Managers, with guest speaker Crowley Woodford, a Partner at Ashurst LLP, coming to you in advance of International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 Dec).
About this event
In direct response to feedback and ideas for future webinars, from our multinational HR and Line Manager audiences, we’ve designed this event to focus on reasonable adjustments and disability discrimination.
A complex area that underpins many day-to-day challenges faced in organisations; from long-term absence prevention / management, supporting those with chronic conditions to stay in – and thrive at – work, to employer strategies where termination of employment is being considered as a last resort.
Submit a question
As part of the registration process for this webinar, we invite you to submit a question to Crowley. We have limited time, so won’t be able to answer everything. But we’ll select those questions that lend themselves to helping improve broad understanding. Please bear in mind that we cannot, of course, answer anything specific to an individual case.
Ideas to get you started:
- Keeping in touch with employees during sickness absence: What questions can – and can’t – organisations ask their absent employees?
- Considering whether someone is disabled under the Equality Act 2010: whose responsibility is it?
- Adjustments for disabled employees: what is reasonable?
- Strategies when termination considerations arise: what to do to protect the organisation.
Register
To register please click here.
This 40-min webinar will take place on Thursday 20th November 2025 at 11:00hrs and will be hosted on Zoom.
If you would like to submit a question for our expert speakers, please do so via email to eb.enquiries@generali.co.uk no later than Friday 14th November 2025.
A recording will be made available to all registered attendees after the event.
This webinar is part of a series of conversations for HR professionals and Line Managers, presented by Generali UK Employee Benefits, in partnership with our independent wellbeing experts. To learn more about our webinar schedule for the coming months, please click here.
Expert Speakers
Crowley Woodford
Partner
Ashurst LLP
Crowley is a partner in the London office of Ashurst LLP where he leads their London and European employment practice. He specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law with a particular emphasis on discrimination, employee disputes and workforce restructuring.
Crowley has extensive experience in corporate governance matters, executive arrivals and departures, whistleblowing, discrimination claims, whistleblowing, protecting confidential information, and enforcing and resisting post-termination restrictive covenants. Crowley is also an expert in leading complex internal investigations including within a regulatory environment.
Kay Needle
Early Intervention & Rehabilitation Specialist
Generali UK Employee Benefits
With over 15 years of experience in employee wellbeing, Early Intervention, and disability claims, Kay has previously worked with multiple brokers and intermediaries before bringing her expertise to Generali. Kay is dedicated to optimising service delivery and outcomes through Generali's ecosystem of specialist wellbeing providers, and supporting employers to enhance absence management approaches to align with best practice from the rehabilitation space.
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