Employing a disabled person

Under the Equality Act (EA) 2010 no employer may treat less favourably a disabled person in terms of recruiting, training, promotion, dismissal or redundancy than any other person.

This may therefore mean that in order to take on a disabled employee, or retain one who has become disabled whilst in work, an employer will need to make reasonable adjustments to the workplace or their employment arrangements so that a disabled employee is not disadvantaged.

In the following section we look at tax related government help and benefits that either the employers can access or assist their staff in accessing together with an outline of how working arrangements can affect elements of tax credits available to disabled employees.

We have produced factsheets which explain the basics of working tax credit and working tax credit elements and another which explains how the disability element of tax credits work.