Disability discrimination — reasonable adjustments and discrimination arising from disability 


As well as the categories of protection against discrimination shared with the other protected characteristics (i.e. direct and indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation), disability discrimination laws include two additional categories of claim, unique to disability. These are “discrimination arising from disability” (section 15, EA 10) and the employer’s statutory duty to make reasonable adjustments (section 20 EA 10). Both categories are explained below.