All items: Duty to make reasonable adjustments

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  A v Hounslow London BC [2001] All ER (D) 128 (Jul) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Risks of employing man with schizophrenia justified dismissal

    Date:

    17 December 2001

    In A v Hounslow, the EAT upholds a tribunal's decision that incalculable risks were presented by the employment of a man with schizophrenia as a laboratory technician at a school, in circumstances where he took no medication for his condition and had previously entertained fantasies of mass murder. The employer was justified in its decision to dismiss him upon the available information.

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  Adams v Colchester & East Essex Co-operative Society Ltd [2002] ET/1500093/02 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 December 2002

    Hilary Slater, consultant with Cobbetts solicitors, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

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  Addison v Royal Mail Group plc [2006] ET/1401045/05 & ET/1401605/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 September 2006

    Tina McKevitt, lecturer in employment law at University of Sheffield, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

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  Aitken v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2009] ET/2317823/07 & ET/2328817/08 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination in the police: employment tribunal decisions

    Date:

    22 September 2009

    This article summarises the main issues and outcomes in five tribunal cases brought by police officers under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Although the decisions are not binding on other tribunals, they provide useful illustrations for police forces of situations that have led to disability discrimination claims.

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  Aitken v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2011] EWCA Civ 582 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability: police officer not discriminated against over threatening behaviour

    Date:

    26 May 2011

    The Court of Appeal has given short shrift to a police officer's disability discrimination claim over his police force's actions after he displayed violent tendencies at a Christmas party that led his colleagues to fear for their safety. 

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  Aitken v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis EAT/0226/09 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Police force did not discriminate against officer who appeared to present danger to colleagues and public

    Date:

    15 December 2010

    In Aitken v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis EAT/0226/09, the EAT held that, in assessing whether or not a police officer who had displayed violent tendencies had been discriminated against, the employment tribunal was entitled to have regard to the need for a police officer not to appear to present a danger to colleagues or the public.

  • Disability: police force did not discriminate against police officer with violent tendencies

    Date:

    29 June 2010

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a police force did not discriminate against a police officer who displayed violent tendencies at a Christmas party that led his colleagues to fear for their safety. 

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  Appleby v The Governing Body of Colburn Community Primary School and another EAT/0334/15 (3 reports relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Refusal of flexible start time to disabled teaching assistant was reasonable

    Date:

    1 November 2016

    In Appleby v The Governing Body of Colburn Community Primary School and another EAT/0334/15, the EAT upheld an employment tribunal decision that it was not a breach of disability discrimination laws to require a teacher with narcolepsy and mental health problems to be at work for 8.45am, when she had asked for 15 minutes' leeway to arrive by 9am.

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 July 2016

    David Malamatenios is partner at Colman Coyle Solicitors. He rounds up the latest rulings.

  • Disability: flexible start time for teaching assistant was not reasonable adjustment

    Date:

    31 May 2016

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that it was not a breach of disability discrimination laws to require a teacher with narcolepsy and mental health problems to be at work for 8.45am, when she had asked for 15 minutes of leeway to arrive by 9am.

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  Archibald v Fife Council [2004] IRLR 197 CS (1 report relating to this case)

  • No duty to make reasonable adjustment

    Date:

    1 May 2004

    In Archibald v Fife Council (9 December 2003), the Court of Session holds that no duty of adjustment arises under the Disability Discrimination Act where an employee becomes disabled and unable to perform the basic tasks of their job.

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  Archibald v Fife Council [2004] IRLR 651 HL (3 reports relating to this case)

  • 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).

  • Case round-up: failure to make reasonable adjustments

    Date:

    27 July 2004

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

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  Archibald v Fife Council EAT/0025/02 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up: injury to feelings awards and reasonable adjustments

    Date:

    28 January 2003

    This week's case round-up, covering: injury to feelings awards; and reasonable adjustments.