Action Points

• Do provide training to all line managers, HR team members and your wider workforce on disability and reasonable adjustments in the workplace.

• Do consider apply to join WorkFA to make reasonable adjustments easy.

• 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