EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107785/2024 Held in Inverness on & December 2025 Employment Judge J M Hendry Mr Jason Allan v Department for Work and Pensions — 2025

The claimant was previously found to be disabled for the purposes of s.6(1) of the Equality Act 2010 because of left-side abdominal pain from January 2019 and back left-side pain from February 2022. The merits hearing concerned alleged failures to make reasonable adjustments relating to equipment and working arrangements: an adapted chair when working in Buckie, a monitor arm, and microbreaks or diary adjustments.

For the Buckie period, the Tribunal found there had been a clear failure to provide an appropriate desk and chair while the claimant worked there, and said the claim would likely have succeeded if brought in time. It dismissed the claim because it was out of time by some months and the claimant had not persuaded the Tribunal that it was just and equitable to extend time.

On the monitor arm, the Tribunal accepted that the need to input data and check records on a monitor was a PCP and that the lack of a monitor arm put the claimant at a substantial disadvantage once the respondent was alerted to the issue in August 2024. It found the respondent addressed the issue once raised and that the claimant had not shown the respondent knew before 2024 that a monitor arm was required as a reasonable adjustment.

On microbreaks, the Tribunal found the requirement to see appointments through the day was a PCP that placed the claimant at a substantial disadvantage. It accepted there were teething problems with the diary system, but concluded the respondent took reasonable steps to implement microbreaks as quickly as it could in the circumstances, and the claimant accepted that by November 2024 the system was working well and he felt supported.