Disability: Employment
Commons · Question 43928 · Tabled 3 Apr 2025 · Women and Equalities · Official record
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Marsha De Cordova
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of assessing employers' compliance with the (a) recruitment and (b) employment of disabled people duties of the Equality Act 2010.
Answer
Answered by Dame Nia Griffith, 10 Apr 2025
The Government is fully committed to the Equality Act 2010 (the Act), which protects disabled people from discrimination in the workplace. The Act prohibits direct and indirect disability discrimination and requires employers to make reasonable adjustment...