The Employment Tribunal had found in favour of the claimant in complaints of unfair dismissal, disability discrimination and sex related harassment.
A government-commissioned review has found that most disabled employees who request workplace reasonable adjustments receive at least some of the support they need, but significant barriers remain throughout the process.
The ERA provides for regulations to be made setting out the steps the employer must comply with when refusing a request. Following a consultation on its proposals on those steps the government has now published its response.
The Government has announced a significant change to the way public services are commissioned, introducing a new Public Interest Test designed to ensure that public bodies properly consider whether services should be delivered in-house before turning to external providers.