Telephone Use: Reasonable Adjustment for Deaf Workers, Landmark Judgment

A 40 year-old deaf man from Grantham who was refused a job because of his disability has won his fight to prove he was the victim of discrimination under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in a landmark case. Mark Keane won £7,436 in damages.

According to the Disability Rights Commission (DRC), which acted for Mr Keane, this is the first case involving a deaf person discriminated against at work because no adjustments were made to allow him to avoid telephone work.

Mark Keane was inte... (161 more words)

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