In order to deal with the employment problems related to people with disabilities, it is necessary to make the employer part of the solution instead of the problem. The Employers’ Forum on Disability said that employers and those formulating the policies should cooperate and work together to benefit disabled people.
It was revealed by a report by the National Equality Panel - An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK - that the 10% of the richest people in the UK are doing about a hundred times better than the poorest people are. In a report, the EFD also mentions that about one in three people have some kind of disability or are associated to a disabled person, who has no access to almost 80% of the employment opportunities.
The problems that disabled people run into in the course of trying to realize their potential are well highlighted by the report, said Susan Scott-Parker, Chief Executive of EFD.
She added that myths related to disability, create a hindrance in the process of educating employers about the skills of people with disabilities. Employees who work in a disability- confident organisation are in better working environments than others as there are better recruitment, customer services and employment practices and such organisations make more profits and incur lesser costs.
The report that was published brought to light that disabled people receive 30% lesser net income than other working people, which is why employers should guarantee that their evaluation methods are not biased towards anyone.
The report also calls for better government policy making, which makes employment for disabled persons, especially those with mental afflictions, a priority.
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