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A FIFTH of managers say they would be less likely to employ a disabled person, believing that they would struggle to do the job, a charity has found.
A further three out of five expressed concern about the cost of employing a disabled person, while one in four said that ensuring the accessibility of the interview process was a “barrier.”
The Leonard Cheshire Disability charity, which undertook the survey of 500 employers, said disabled people can face “barrier after barrier” due to attitudes that have no basis in fact.
Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports
BFAWU general secretary SARAH WOOLLEY highlights a catalogue of health and safety failings at the Mowi fish processing plant in Fife