Lesson 12 – Reasonable Adjustments
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If you disclose your disability or your employer should be reasonable expected to know that you are disabled, and you are at a disadvantage, they have a duty to make reasonable adjustments.
Our guest Janine Booth takes you through the specifics about the duty to make reasonable adjustments and how to request them.
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DARE research on reasonable adjustments
You might find our page about a research into ND people’s experience with reasonable adjustments helpful.
My statement requesting reasonable adjustments
Remember that it might be beneficial contacting Access to Work directly and discussing with them the reasonable adjustments you need. You don’t have to contact them through your employer or Occupational Health and this way you would have control of the timing and what you say to Access to Work.
This is the most helpful description of eligibility for Access to Work and how they could help: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/access-to-work-factsheet/access-to-work-factsheet-for-customers
When requesting reasonable adjustments, it might be useful to carefully consider and write a statement to this effect.
Janine talks in her video about the importance of explaining how the employee’s condition constitutes a disability (that could mean e.g. by doing things differently) and you are at a disadvantage.
