Sunday, October 16, 2005

Disabled people stopped from working

Discrimination and inflexible workplaces are preventing disabled people from working, a new report shows.

The report, commissioned by the Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS), has found most disabled people would like to work part-time, but think it is unlikely employers will give them the flexibility they need.

They also say that Centrelink is largely unhelpful and that moving from the Newstart Allowance - when they are required to look for work - onto the Disability Support Pension (DSP) is a great relief.

'Most felt that they would be able to cope with formal part-time employment if employers were more flexible,' the report's authors said.

'This would involve employers taking account of their disability and allowing them to rest during the day when they needed to and to take whole days off when they could not contemplate going to work,' they said."
Comment

Its not rocket science is it? I hear this report from motivated people I interview every day I work. The problem is employer attitude.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Interesting… I might try some of this on my blog, too. It’s quite interesting how you sometimes stop being innovative and just go for an accepted solution without actually trying to improve it… you make a couple of good points

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