The topics of disability and reasonable accommodation has become a forefront topic HR of late. For the purpose of this article, we will focus disability in employment.

Legislation ⚓︎

Ireland has a plethora of legislation set out in which to protect employees that have a disability from being discriminated within the workplace. For example the Employment Equality Acts 1998–2015 and the Equal Status Acts 2000 – 2015 outlaw discrimination in employment, vocational training, advertising, collective agreements, the provision of goods and services. Irish legislation sets out nine grounds on which discrimination is prohibited including; age, sex, sexual orientation, race, disability, civil status, family status, religion and membership of the traveller community. The purpose of the acts are to eliminate