Less favourable treatment on the ground of 'disability' can be justified under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) only if the reason for it is both 'material to the circumstances' of the particular case, and 'substantial'. Moreover, it has been unlawful (since October 2004) for an employer to treat a disabled person less favourably, on grounds of his (or her) disability, than he treats (or would treat) a person not having that particular disability, whose relevant circumstances (including his abilities) are the same as, or not materially different from, those of the disabled person,
It would, therefore, be unlawful for you to turn down a candidate, solely on the grounds that other employees, or customers, would feel uncomfortable dealing with him (or her).
