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Cost of adjustment
The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) requires employers to make adjustments
to their workplace to accommodate employees with disabilities.
There will be costs involved in these adjustments, but they are likely to be minimal.
This is because:
- the DDA requires employers to make only reasonable adjustments to ensure
the workplace is accessible to people with disabilities
- many employers are already making the sort of adjustments required by the
DDA (for example, wheelchair accessible front entrances). It makes good business
sense to do so and improves the quality of service for everyone
- extra business generated by the improved accessiblity of your premises
and work practices will help you to offset some of the extra costs that may
arise
- many disabled employees do not require adjustments and, where they do,
the adjustment is minimal
- it will generally cost you less to make an adjustment for an employee who
becomes disabled, than to recruit and train a new employee
- improvement in communications technology enables you to offer more flexible
working conditions, such as equipment for working from home. This can prevent
the need to make physical adjustments to the workplace
- there is Government financial support available for yourself and employees
including the Access
to Work scheme.
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