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Equal Opportunities Disability Discrimination Act 1995 This act is about discrimination towards disabled people. This disability could be physical, sensory or mental. This act also give disabled people rights in the areas of: * Employment * Access to goods, facilities and services * Buying or renting land or property. The act defines a disabled person as someone with 'a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term (last more than 12 months) adverse effect on his ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.' There are also employment provisions, which apply to employers with 15 or more employees. The provision includes those that require employers to consider making changes to the physical features of premises that they live in, have been in force since December 1996. There is two ways in which an employer can single out disabled employees or candidate apply for a job:- * By treating them less favourably than other employees, because of that...

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