Report suggests there is no clear link between the percentage of disabled employees and their experience in an organisation
Mandatory disability workforce reporting is not the solution to closing the disability employment gap, a report has said.
The report, by the Business Disability Forum, found that neither employers nor disabled employees felt that mandatory reporting would improve the outcome for workers with disabilities.
It said there was no clear link between the experiences of disabled employees within an organisation and the percentage of disabled employees reported – with employers reporting a higher percentage of disabled workers not always the most inclusive to work for, suggesting that mandatory reporting could create a misleading picture.
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In addition, the report – which based its findings on a working group of 64 employers and 64 disabled people – said that disabled employees often felt language including ‘must’ and ‘mandatory’ created a negative impression of employing disabled people.
Disabled employees also raised concerns over how disability would be defined and different disabilities and conditions would be classified under any potential mandatory reporting system.
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