Advise Gillian as to Wolverine Enterprises Ltd’s legal obligations towards Alan Smith and its potential legal liability towards Sylvia Brown.

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Ann-Spowart Taylor

Wolverine Enterprises Ltd.

Advise Gillian as to Wolverine Enterprises Ltd's legal obligations towards Alan Smith and its potential legal liability towards Sylvia Brown.

1. Alan Smith

Alan works at the Sunderland factory as a production operative. It is hot work that involves ensuring that hot steel bars are fed correctly into a casting machine. Alan has just been diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis. The only symptom he suffers at present is that he tires more easily than he used to and more easily than do others. The effects of multiple sclerosis vary considerably as does the speed at which the symptoms of the condition develop. Alan has been advised by his consultant that if possible he should avoid heavy physical effort and working in hot conditions.

Important and relevant facts of the case

=> He is a production operative, a production operative operates machinery.

=> He works in hot conditions.

=> He has been diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis.

=> Only symptom is tiredness, which is a significant one as you should not operate machinery if you are tired, and his job is based around this.