Summary
- Obligation to redeploy
- Obligation to consider redeployment
- Obligation to seek redeployment broadly in the
organisation
- Takeaway for Employers
The Supreme Court has ruled that a disabled employee should have
been considered for redeployment to another vacant position outside
their place of work.
Under the Anti-Discrimination Act, employers must take
appropriate measures to give employees with disabilities continued
access to employment, unless this imposes a disproportionate burden
on the employer. It follows from recent case law of the European
Court of Justice that such measures may include redeployment to
another vacant position that the employee would be competent,
suitable and available to fill.
