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- Impact of this judgment
- Background law
- The facts and decision of the employment tribunal
- The judgment of the EAT
Article summary
Disability under the Equality Act 2010 is any physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities (including general work-related activities). It is essential to define the relevant activity broadly: care should be taken not to include in the definition the very feature which constitutes a barrier to the disabled individual’s participation in that activity. Accordingly, the lifting and movement of goods manually is a normal day-to-day activity but an employer’s 'pick rate' is not the activity. It is simply a particular requirement of the employer as to the manner and speed of performance of that activity. EAT: Banaszczyk v Booker.
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