Disability in employment equality law: A reappraisal of the reasonable accommodation duty and issues arising in its implementation

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dc.contributor.authorDaly, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorWhelan, Darius
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-22T10:20:30Z
dc.date.available2022-02-22T10:20:30Z
dc.date.issued2021-12-01
dc.date.updated2022-02-18T12:35:02Z
dc.description.abstractThis article re-considers the special features of the disability ground in EU equality law and raises questions as to whether the EUâ s Framework Equality Directive (Directive 2000/78) may be in need of fundamental reform. It argues that the â Competence Defenceâ in the Directive could have been more strongly drafted, to prescribe more precisely the circumstances in which an individual may be found not to be competent to perform the postâ s essential functions. In the absence of a unified EU approach regarding the activation of the reasonable accommodation duty and an employerâ s knowledge as to disability or the need for reasonable accommodation, national positions are compared. A model whereby the provision for individuals with disabilities is carried out in a proactive as opposed to a reactive manner could reduce the need for the reasonable accommodation system. The possibility of increased state involvement in the provision of reasonable accommodation to employees has strong potential. It is proposed that the principle of Universal Design, as expressed in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, could be used to ensure that work environments are developed from the outset to be conducive to the needs of those with physical or psychosocial disabilities. The implications of such a major change are assessed.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationDaly, P. and Whelan, D. (2021) 'Disability in employment equality law: A reappraisal of the reasonable accommodation duty and issues arising in its implementation', Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 28(6), pp. 744-759. doi: 10.1177/1023263X211035268en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1023263X211035268en
dc.identifier.eissn2399-5548
dc.identifier.endpage759en
dc.identifier.issn1023-263X
dc.identifier.issued6en
dc.identifier.journaltitleMaastricht Journal of European and Comparative Lawen
dc.identifier.startpage744en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12587
dc.identifier.volume28en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1023263X211035268
dc.rights© 2021, the Authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectDisabilityen
dc.subjectConvention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilitiesen
dc.subjectEmployment equalityen
dc.subjectReasonable accommodationen
dc.subjectUniversal designen
dc.titleDisability in employment equality law: A reappraisal of the reasonable accommodation duty and issues arising in its implementationen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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