Action Points & Further reading
Some quick links and guidance to go further.
Action Points
- Do provide workplace adjustments training for all line managers to ensure your policies are followed in practice.
- Do consider updating your HR systems to make recording and reviewing adjustments easy. Speak to our team if you'd like support with this.
- Do make all employees aware of the Government’s Access To Work scheme.
- If an employee requires an Occupational Health Assessment, do ensure that the assessor has experience in vocational rehabilitation.
Government guidance
- Equality Act 2010
- Duty on employers to make reasonable adjustments for their staff
- The Equality Act, making equality real
- Guidance on matters to be taken into account in determining questions relating to the definition of disability
- Access to Work
Other
- Large increase in disability employment discrimination cases, 20 Jan 2020
- Equality and Human Rights Commission Legal Cases
- Duty to make reasonable adjustments: five tips from case law
- Disability discrimination: key points for the workplace
- ACAS Reasonable adjustments
- Managing and supporting mental health at work: disclosure tools for managers
- Business Disability Forum
- Reasonable adjustments disability passports
- Disclosing a disability
- Prevent discrimination: Support equality