Neurodiversity in the workplace

Lynne Marr and Gillian Mair discussed neurodiversity in the workplace. This session covered:
- what do we mean by neurodiversity?;
- benefits of neurodiverse thinking in the workplace and promoting inclusion;
- challenges for neurodivergent workers and effectively supporting them in the workplace; and
- The Equality Act 2010 and neurodiversity.

Speaker biographies:
Lynne Marr
Lynne is accredited as a specialist in employment law by the Law Society of Scotland and is also an accredited mediator. She forges close working relationships with our team's clients and her commercial and straight-talking approach is welcomed by them. She works with clients in various sectors across the public and private sector in Scotland and the UK including public transport providers, universities, government bodies, investment firms and banks.
Lynne advises on all stages of the employment relationship from recruitment, through to termination and beyond. Her work is split between dispute resolution through employment tribunals and on advisory and non-contentious employment law. Lynne advises on equalities issues, business change, transfers and redundancies, industrial action, executive hiring and exits, investigations. She particularly enjoys working with HR professionals to support them on complex HR issues.

Gillian Mair
Gillian has experience of advising clients across a wide range of sectors (including financial services, food and drink, charities and third sector) on both contentious and non-contentious issues. She has extensive experience of advising clients on the full spectrum of HR issues and regularly represents clients in employment tribunals throughout the UK.

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
1:36 What we will cover
2:11 Neurodiversity
3:41 Why is neurodiversity a workplace issue
7:40 Disability Discrimination
8:32 Obligation to make reasonable adjustments
9:08 Knowledge - what makes neurodivergence different
10:58 Occupational Health Input
13:31 Adjustments for the neurodivergent
17:48 Reasonableness of adjustments
20:12 Discrimination arising from disability
24:01 Benefits of neurodiverse thinking
26:06 Strategies for creating an inclusive workforce
28:03 Workbox
28:32 Questions