Moving you into a different role with your employer instead of dismissing you, usually considered when your original job is no longer possible because of ill health or disability. It should be offered as a genuine alternative, not just discussed and then dropped.

In practice

In Archibald v Fife Council, the courts confirmed an employer's duty to make reasonable adjustments can extend to redeployment, moving an employee into a different role without making them compete for it, where their disability means the original job is no longer realistic.

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