Redeployment

For more information, visit the Parkinson’s UK website (last updated November 2021).

If there are no reasonable adjustments that would mean you could do your current job, your employers must look for suitable alternative jobs that you can be transferred to. This is known as redeployment. Remember that the job might be suitable if other reasonable adjustments are made, such as changing hours or location, or with the help of special equipment.

If you can’t do your job, and there’s no other suitable job in the organisation you can do, even with reasonable adjustments, your employer can end your contract. This may be a fair dismissal and as you are not redundant you will not be entitled to a redundancy payment. This is because your job still needs to be done and your employer will have to find someone else to do your role.