Employment Equality Act, 1998
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Special provisions related to persons with disabilities. |
35.—(1) Nothing in this Part or Part II shall make it unlawful for an employer to provide, for an employee with a disability, a particular rate of remuneration for work of a particular description if, by reason of that disability, the employee is restricted in his or her capacity to do the same amount of work (or to work the same hours) as a person who is employed to do work of that description but who is without that disability. | |
(2) Nothing in this Part or Part II shall make it unlawful for an employer or any other person to provide, for a person with a disability, special treatment or facilities where the provision of that treatment or those facilities— | ||
(a) enables or assists that person to undertake vocational training, to take part in a selection process or to work, or | ||
(b) provides that person with a training or working environment suited to the disability, or | ||
(c) otherwise assists that person in relation to vocational training or work. | ||
(3) Where, by virtue of subsection (1) or (2), D, as a person with a disability, receives a particular rate of remuneration or, as the case may be, special treatment or facilities, C, as a person without a disability, or with a different disability, shall not be entitled under this Act to that rate of remuneration, that treatment or those facilities. |