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Case round-up: failure to make reasonable adjustments

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    Archibald v Fife Council [2004] IRLR 651 HL (3 other reports)

    • Disability discrimination update (2)

      Date:
      29 December 2006

      This article, the second in a two-part series on disability discrimination, looks at some of the recent key disability discrimination judgments.

    • Disability discrimination: Extent of s.6 duty to make reasonable adjustments

      Date:
      6 August 2004

      In Archibald v Fife Council, the House of Lords holds that an employment tribunal misconstrued the scope of the employer's duty to take reasonable steps to prevent any of its arrangements from placing a disabled employee at a substantial disadvantage in comparison with people who are not disabled.

    • Reasonable adjustment duty may require transfer to another job

      Date:
      1 August 2004

      The duty to make a reasonable adjustment under s.6 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 may require an employer to treat a disabled person more favourably than a non-disabled person, in order to remove the disadvantage caused by the disability. This may include transferring an employee to a suitable vacant position, holds the House of Lords in Archibald v Fife Council (1 July 2004).

This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering failure to make reasonable adjustments.

Reasonable adjustment case sent back to tribunal

Archibald v Fife Council, House of Lords, 1 July 2004

Archibald was a road sweeper for Fife Council.