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Disabled workers have had to choose “between their lives and their livelihoods” during the pandemic, because of employers’ failure to provide them with the reasonable adjustments they are entitled to by law, union activists have heard. The annual TUC disabled workers’ […]
Disabled workers have had their rights repeatedly breached during the coronavirus pandemic, the annual conference of disabled trade unionists has heard. The TUC disabled workers’ conference heard how disabled workers had been forced by employers to risk their lives by attending […]
The government has made no progress since 2010 in closing the disability employment gap, MPs were told yesterday by academics. Ministers have long bragged about their success in reducing the difference between the proportion of disabled people and non-disabled people in […]
Two of the government’s flagship disability employment schemes have been heavily criticised by a pair of disabled campaigners in a parliamentary evidence session. The Commons work and pensions committee was hearing evidence for its inquiry into the disability employment gap, the […]
There is a clear gap between the “words and actions” of the voluntary sector when it comes to including and recognising disabled people as employees and leaders, according to new research. The research found that disabled people in senior positions across […]
A disabled-run social enterprise will be able to set up a national support service to help disabled people find jobs in the economic crisis caused by the pandemic, after fighting off competition to secure £125,000 in funding. Evenbreak is one of […]
The government’s repeated claims that its policies have transformed the employment prospects of disabled people over the last seven years have been challenged by academics who suggest their figures are simply the result of a statistical quirk. Disabled activists have been […]
The recession associated with the pandemic is likely to be having a disproportionate impact on disabled employees, just as it did in the last recession, according to academics. They have examined the impact on disabled people during the recession of 2007 […]
Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey has failed to sign up to her own much-criticised disability employment scheme, Disability Confident, her department has admitted. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has also admitted that Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who launched […]
Disabled union activists have backed TUC calls for the government to take action to help disabled workers disproportionately affected by the coronavirus crisis. The TUC warned this week that disabled people were set to face some of the highest rates of […]