
It seems people with disabilities have no safety net when threatened with losing their job because of measures they’re told to take, just to protect themselves from Covid-19.
Was there an underlying prejudice against people with disabilities all along, or did the Tories put it on the national agenda?
Until 2010, This Writer thought the UK was moving in the right direction, discarding discrimination against ethnic minorities and people with physical impediments.
But racism and disablism have skyrocketed since the Tories came back into office and I don’t know whether they have instigated it or merely allowed bigots across the UK to express what they felt all along.
Covid-19 seems to have brought this ugliness into its own.
The latest outrage is the revelation that a quarter of working people with disabilities are likely to lose their job – because of safety measures they have been told to take, to avoid infection.
This rises to 37 per cent of those who said their disability had a large impact on their day-to-day life.
And half of those shielding because of extreme vulnerability to the coronavirus risk redundancy.
It seems employers see people with disabilities as an easy cut to make – especially in an atmosphere where unfair dismissals are more likely to go unremarked.
And people with disabilities going onto benefits face an uphill struggle getting benefits – even if they’re not claiming sickness/disability benefits.
The five-week wait for Universal Credit is bad enough for able-bodied people, remember.
The Tory government isn’t particularly bothered. Anyone can seek an employment tribunal against unfair dismissal.
But how long is that going to take? And what will they do in the meantime?
Source: Parents, carers and disabled people in UK ‘twice as likely to lose job’ | World news | The Guardian
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