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Reasonable adjustments: whether PCP was applied to claimant is irrelevant (News, 31 January 2012)

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Published on: 31 January 2012

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When assessing whether a disabled claimant had been put at a substantial disadvantage by a provision, criterion or practice (PCP) applied by his employer, in order to determine whether the duty to make reasonable adjustments arose, it was irrelevant and generally unhelpful to enquire whether the PCP was applied to the claimant himself, as there will sometimes be cases where a PCP that is applied to others at work places the disabled person at a substantial disadvantage even if it is not applied directly to him, according to the EAT in Roberts v North West Ambulance Service.

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