Labour Research (January 2010)

Equality news

Uneven progress

There is uneven progress among organisations achieving disability equality, the Employers’ Forum on Disability (EFD) has found.

Every two years, the EFD runs the Disability Standard, an employer-led benchmark that allows organisations to compare their performance on every aspect of disability as it affects the business — including the working environment, IT systems, outsourcing and procurement.

Key findings were that three in five boards or senior management teams regularly review progress on disability equality, but only 13% of organisations build responsibility for disability equality into managers’ performance goals. Just over a third (35%) of organisations use targeted initiatives to attract disabled candidates, while only one in 10 monitors the proportion of employees gaining promotion who declare they have a disability.


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