What are reasonable adjustments under the law?
[ch 9: page 48]The Equality Act 2010 obliges an employer to consider three broad forms of reasonable adjustments:
• changing the way things are done;
• overcoming physical features; and
• providing extra equipment.
When deciding what is “reasonable”, an employer can take into account:
• the size of the organisation and its financial situation;
• the cost of making the change;
• how helpful the adjustment would be to the individual; and
• how practical it is to make the change.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published a guide on the duty to make reasonable adjustments, Employing people: workplace adjustments, which gives examples of reasonable adjustments in practice (https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/multipage-guide/employing-people-workplace-adjustments).