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MPs ‘have missed the real flaws of Work Choice’

By John Pring on 23rd October 2015 Category: Employment

MPs ‘have missed the real flaws of Work Choice’
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A disabled researcher and campaigner has criticised a new report by a cross-party committee of MPs for failing to acknowledge fully the “perverse contradiction” at the heart of the government’s specialist employment programme. Catherine Hale, who wrote a well-received review on the failure […]

Employee forced to return to factory after seven years of harassment

By John Pring on 16th October 2015 Category: Employment

Employee forced to return to factory after seven years of harassment
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A disabled man has had to return to the factory where he has twice been victimised by the same manager in a campaign of bullying and harassment that he says has lasted more than seven years. An employment tribunal has decided […]

Tory conference: Tomlinson says Disability Confident will help halve employment gap

By John Pring on 9th October 2015 Category: Employment

Tory conference: Tomlinson says Disability Confident will help halve employment gap
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The minister for disabled people has defended his government’s campaign to boost disability employment, and has called on big business to lead the way in becoming more “disability confident”. Justin Tomlinson (pictured) said the prime minister, David Cameron, had made a […]

Nash hopes new online hub for networks will boost ‘purple power’

By John Pring on 9th October 2015 Category: Employment

Nash hopes new online hub for networks will boost ‘purple power’
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A unique new website aims to bring together networks representing hundreds of thousands of disabled employees across the UK. PurpleSpace will support the leaders of disabled employee networks (DENs) and disabled employees themselves in a bid to share best practice, and […]

Labour conference: Work Programme ‘lacks common sense on mental health’

By John Pring on 2nd October 2015 Category: Employment

Labour conference: Work Programme ‘lacks common sense on mental health’
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People with mental health conditions are being forced too soon into work that they are not ready to do, according to a disabled Labour councillor employed by one of the government’s Work Programme providers. Jenny Nedwell (pictured) a Labour councillor with […]

Marchers to warn PM that Access to Work cap will discriminate

By John Pring on 25th September 2015 Category: Employment

Marchers to warn PM that Access to Work cap will discriminate
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Deaf and disabled people are set to march on Downing Street on Saturday (26 September) to protest at government cuts to the Access to Work scheme. Activists from across the country will gather first outside the Houses of Parliament at noon, […]

New ‘fitness for work’ firm ‘discriminates against disabled staff’

By John Pring on 28th August 2015 Category: Employment

New ‘fitness for work’ firm ‘discriminates against disabled staff’
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The controversial US outsourcing giant brought in to deliver “fitness for work” tests for the government is facing allegations that it discriminates against disabled staff, and has sacked hundreds of nurses shortly after tempting them to leave the NHS. Maximus only […]

Employment and unemployment of disabled people ‘are both rising’

By John Pring on 14th August 2015 Category: Employment

Employment and unemployment of disabled people ‘are both rising’
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The number of disabled people who are unemployed has risen for the second quarter in a row, according to new government figures. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) used the publication of quarterly labour market statistics to point to the […]

Minister fails to solve mystery of Swansea’s ‘Disability Confident City’ accolade

By John Pring on 3rd July 2015 Category: Employment

Minister fails to solve mystery of Swansea’s ‘Disability Confident City’ accolade
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The minister for disabled people has risked ridicule after announcing that Swansea has become the country’s first “Disability Confident City”, despite being unable to explain why it was chosen. The announcement was timed to coincide with a Disability Confident conference that […]

One in four civil servants still faces discrimination at work, says watchdog

By John Pring on 26th June 2015 Category: Employment

One in four civil servants still faces discrimination at work, says watchdog
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One in four disabled civil servants still feels discriminated against at work, four years after Disability News Service revealed “disturbing” levels of discrimination, bullying and harassment across the civil service. Last year, the government published a new talent action plan that […]

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