How Do I Make Tough Decisions Fairly?

Unfortunately, despite all your best efforts, and those of the employee things may not be working out.

You may feel you have done everything advised under the Disability Discrimination Act and made reasonable adjustments but things still aren't improving.

However, before you make any tough decisions, stand back and review the situation.

Check through the advice given on these pages again to make sure you have done everything you can to support your employee.

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Once you've done this get together with your HR personnel and ask yourself the questions on our tough decisions checklist (pdf download - 417KB) taking note of the guidance accompanying each question.

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In this section:

How do I...

...support someone with mental ill health?
...know if someone has mental ill health?
...create a healthy workplace?