If you have a disability, your employer is required to take positive steps to support you. This may include removing, or enabling you to avoid physical features of your workplace or certain workplace rules which place you at a substantial disadvantage compared with people who are not disabled. These are often referred to as ‘reasonable adjustments’.
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We can help you assert your right to require your employer to make reasonable adjustments
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For the purposes of disability discrimination and the duty to make reasonable adjustments, whether an individual has a disability is a legal question, rather than a medical question.
Under s6(1) of the Equality Act 2010, disability is defined as any physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. This means that any medical condition could, in theory, amount to a disability if its impact is long-term and sufficiently substantial.
Your employer is required to make reasonable adjustments for you if you are disabled and suffer a substantial disadvantage as a result due to:
The purpose of the reasonable adjustment is to remove or avoid the substantial disadvantage you suffer and your employer must bear the cost of the adjustment.
Your employer’s duty is ‘to take such steps as it is reasonable to have to take’ to avoid the substantial disadvantage you suffer (or to provide the auxiliary aid) and factors which might be taken into account when deciding if a step is a reasonable one to take include:
The starting point will often be to seek redress under your employer’s internal grievance procedure. If this does not resolve your concerns, you may have grounds to pursue a claim in the Employment Tribunal for your employer’s failure to make reasonable adjustments.
If you are disabled, you also have the right not to be subjected to unlawful discrimination because of, or harassment in relation to, your disability. Discrimination can take many forms, including direct, indirect, harassment, victimisation and discrimination arising from disability.
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