Disabled volunteers cannot rely on employee legislation
Volunteers cannot use Disability Discrimination Act 1995 protections intended for disabled employees to challenge their dismissal, the Supreme Court has held.
A disabled woman who had been a volunteer advisor at Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau brought a claim under the 1995 Act after she was asked to leave her post, in X v Mid Sussex CAB [2012] UKSC 59.
However, five justices unanimously agreed that she had no employment contract and therefore could not benefit from the 1995 Act. They also held that the EC Directive concerning equal treatment (Directive 2000/78/EC Establishing a Framework for Equal Treatment and Occupation) did not protect unpaid volunteers.
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