Knowledge of disability

This report relates to 1 case(s)

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  O'Neill v Symm & Co Ltd [1998] IRLR 233 EAT (2 other reports)

  • Interpreting the DDA - part 2: discrimination, justification and adjustment

    Date:

    1 July 2001

    The meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) as it has been interpreted by the employment tribunals and the appellate courts is examined here in the second of a two-part series. Part One (EOR 94) looked at the meaning of "disability".

  • Disability discrimination: Discrimination requires knowledge of disability

    Date:

    1 April 1998

    In O'Neill v Symm & Co Ltd, the EAT holds that an employer's knowledge of an employee's disability, or at least its material features, was relevant in determining whether the employer treated the employee, for a reason which related to her disability, less favourably than in comparable circumstances it would have treated others to whom that reason would not apply.