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A lack of knowledge about reasonable adjustments – among both employers and employees – is causing problems for a “significant minority” of disabled workers, a government study has concluded. The study found that both employers and employees continue to be uncertain […]
Reform UK’s equalities policy is mired in confusion this week after the party’s equalities spokesperson – former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman – appeared to perform a major U-turn in comments to Disability News Service (DNS). There was a furious reaction […]
The government has laid out its next steps – and published new research – on addressing the pay discrimination faced by disabled workers and other oppressed groups. It is now two years since the new Labour government used its first king’s […]
The equality watchdog has appointed just one disabled person to its board of commissioners, but it has been heavily criticised for refusing to reveal their identity. In recent months, Bridget Phillipson, Labour’s minister for women and equalities (and also the education […]
The equality watchdog has completed its draft report into allegations of unlawful treatment of disabled benefit claimants by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), two years after the inquiry was launched under the last government. The Equality and Human Rights […]
Disabled activists have accused Reform UK of readying itself to “legalise discrimination”, after its new equalities “shadow minister” said the party would repeal the Equality Act on its first day in government. The pledge came from Suella Braverman (pictured), the former […]
The business leader heading the government’s efforts to keep ill and disabled people in work has suggested to MPs that he does not believe stricter enforcement of the Equality Act is the way to address disability discrimination in the workplace. Sir […]
Retail giant Marks and Spencer has agreed to pay compensation and make changes to at least one of its stores after installing chilled food cabinets with inaccessible doors that prevented a disabled campaigner from accessing any of the contents. Flick Williams […]
Disabled campaigners have expressed their frustration with ministers after they imposed a “pause” on the most dangerous types of “floating” bus stop but refused to halt the rollout of all such installations. The National Federation of the Blind of the UK […]
Scores of disabled students are to demonstrate next week in protest at their university’s “discriminatory” decision to secretly introduce cuts to their support. They say the University of Derby has removed the entitlement to support from many of the disabled students […]