Disability Discrimination Overview: Challenging discrimination at work and promoting access to goods and services
This course has been cancelled
Date: 28 March
Time: 10 am –1pm
Trainer: Mohammed Kebbay
This course will provide you with an overview of the main areas where the Equality Act can protect disabled people from discrimination. It will provide you with the knowledge that you need to understand who is protected under the Act, and then look particularly at discrimination in employment, goods and service provision and in housing and transport. This course is intended as an introductory overview and will not cover each area in detail.
In particular the course will include:
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- Definitions of disability discrimination under the Equality Act
- - Applying the Equality Act in:
- Employment
- Access to goods and services
- Housing
- Transport
- - Reasonable adjustments – case law and considerations
- - Using the law – practicalities of taking a case to Court or Tribunal