Government calls on employers to hire more disabled people and help aid their social inclusion

Posted on 01. Jul, 2007 by Bill in Employment News

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The government has called on employers to hire more disabled people and help aid their social inclusion.

Employers can play a key role in ensuring that disabled people are able to play a full part in society through employment by preventing ill-health and injury, and providing appropriate support in the workplace.

Department for Work and Pensions minister Lord McKenzie said today: â€œIncreasing the number of disabled people in mainstream employment has the potential to tear down the last barriers to social inclusion for disabled people.

â€œJust as important as getting disabled people into work is keeping people in work and preventing them from falling out of work in the first place.â€

McKenzie said he wanted to see employers develop supportive cultures that allow staff with health problems and impairments to work, making the necessary adjustments to help them do so.

â€œMostly these adjustments will be neither as difficult nor as expensive as people think. But clearly we have an important job ahead to engage, educate and support employers,â€ he said.

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