The EAT decided that an employer, in not paying for an employee with work-related stress and depression to have private psychiatric counselling and cognitive behavioral therapy, breached its duty to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010. The adjustments, which were recommended by a consultant psychiatrist, were sufficiently “job-related” to fall within the scheme of the legislation. They would have involved payment for a specific form of support to help the employee return to work and cope with her work-related difficulties. The EAT also made it clear that this was not a case about employers being obliged as a general rule to pay for private medical treatment. (Croft Vets Ltd and others v Butcher UKEAT/0430/12.)
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