Disability Discrimination Act 1995 : Chapter 50.

  • Great Britain. Disability Discrimination Act 1995
Date:
[1995]
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Credit: Disability Discrimination Act 1995 : Chapter 50. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (a) arrangements for determining to whom employment should be offered; ; (b) any term, condition or arrangements on which employment, promotion, a transfer, training or any other benefit is offered or afforded. (3) The following are examples of steps which an employer may have to take in relation to a disabled person in order to comply with subsection (1)— (a) making adjustments to premises; (b) allocating some of the disabled person’s duties to another person; (c) transferring him to fill an existing vacancy; (d) altering his working hours; (e) assigning him to a different place of work; (f) allowing him to be absent during working hours for rehabilitation, assessment or treatment; (g) giving him, or arranging for him to be given, training; (h) acquiring or modifying equipment; (i) modifying instructions or reference manuals; (j) modifying procedures for testing or assessment; (k) providing a reader or interpreter; (1) providing supervision. (4) In determining whether it is reasonable for an employer to have to take a particular step in order to comply with subsection (1), regard shall be had, in particular, to— (a) the extent to which taking the step would prevent the effect in question; , (b) the extent to which it is practicable for the employer to take the step; (c) the financial and other costs which would be incurred by the employer in taking the step and the extent to which taking it would disrupt any of his activities; (d) the extent of the employer’s financial and other resources; (e) the availability to the employer of financial or other assistance with respect to taking the step. This subsection is subject to any provision of regulations made under (5) In this section, “the disabled person concerned” means— (a) in the case of arrangements for determining to whom employment should be offered, any disabled person who 1s, or has notified the employer that he may be, an applicant for that employment; (b) in any other case, a disabled person who is— (i) an applicant for the employment concerned; or (ii) an employee of the employer concerned.
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