Efforts to increase the use of digital hiring and take advantage of remote work options have failed to “significantly reduce” worklessness for disabled people, the APPG was told.
A packed room in the Palace of Westminster received comments and urgings from experts including Kim Hoque of King’s Business School, Laura Davis of the British Association for Supported Employment and Emily Hyland of TUI about ongoing negativity and disinterest towards hiring disabled people in UK business, citing “long job hunts… and sometimes outright ableism”, and a need to implement mandatory disability employment and pay gap reporting for organisations of over 250 people in a Disability Employment Charter.