Get help and advice

You can get advice on reasonable adjustments (see more below) from the Disability Employment Adviser (DEA) at your local Jobcentre Plus office, or the Disability Employment Service if you’re in Northern Ireland.

You can apply for Access to Work if you need extra help.

There’s more detail about employers’ obligations and how to meet them on the Equality and Human Rights Commission website.

Your Rights in the Workplace

Examples of Reasonable Adjustments include:

• changing the recruitment process so a candidate can be considered for a job

• doing things another way, such as allowing someone with social anxiety disorder to have their own desk instead of hot-desking

• making physical changes to the workplace, like installing a ramp for a wheelchair user or an audio-visual fire alarm for a deaf person

• letting a disabled person work somewhere else, such as on the ground floor for a wheelchair user

• changing their equipment, for instance providing a special keyboard if they have arthritis

• allowing employees who become disabled to make a phased return to work, including flexible hours or part-time working

• offering employees training opportunities, recreation and refreshment facilities

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