What Are 3 Examples Of Disability Discrimination At Work

What are 3 examples of disability discrimination at work, chosen to show the different legal forms rather than different situations?

Direct. An employee is not considered for a team leader role because a manager believes their condition makes them unreliable, despite nothing in their record supporting that.

Indirect. A blanket requirement that everyone attends the office five days a week, applied to all, which a person with a mobility-related disability cannot meet, and which is not reasonable in the circumstances.

Failure to adjust. An employee requests screen-reading software and it is not provided, with no assessment of whether providing it would impose unjustifiable hardship.

The second form causes the most trouble in practice, because the rule looks entirely neutral, applies to everybody equally, and nobody has to have intended anything by it.

The Australian Human Rights Commission publishes guidance. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

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