Daily Archives: 11/12/2011

Fears over Equality Act threat in ‘sickness absence’ report

Recommendations in a major government-backed report on “sickness absence” have placed a worrying question-mark over vital new equality laws that protect disabled job-seekers from discrimination, say campaigners.
The health at work report was published last week, and has already secured backing from the prime minister, David Cameron.
But hidden in the report is a recommendation to “reconsider” [...]

Motability faces anger over five-mile limit

The Motability car scheme is facing anger from disabled customers over new restrictions that will make it harder for them to find personal assistants (PAs) to drive their vehicles.
The announcement of tighter new rules in October followed a series of inaccurate and hostile media reports attacking the disabled people’s car scheme, which is only open [...]