250+ ORGANISATIONS WORKING TOGETHER

Disabled people continue to experience significant labour market disadvantage, including a near 30 percentage point disability employment gap, and a 14 per cent pay gap.

The Disability Employment Charter was launched by Disability Rights UK, Disability@Work, Leonard Cheshire, Scope, the DFN Charitable Foundation, the Shaw Trust Foundation, UNISON, and the University of Warwick, to outline to government the policies that are needed to address this disadvantage, and also to demonstrate the support for these policies among a wide range of stakeholders.

The Charter calls on the government to implement proposals in nine key areas including in relation to: mandatory disability employment and pay gap reporting; reform of Access to Work and Disability Confident; leveraging of government procurement; and enhanced access to reasonable adjustments. Enacting the Charter’s proposals will not only benefit disabled people, but will also help employers address their labour and skills shortages.

The Charter has now been signed by over 250 organisations including all the UK’s large disability charities (including Mind, National Autistic Society, Mencap, Sense, RNIB, RNID), large corporates (including Adecco, CMS Law, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, DPD UK, Herbert Smith Freehills, McDonalds, PageGroup, the Post Office, Publicis Groupe, and Schroders), other leading organisations including the Trades Union Congress and the British Paralympic Association, and a growing number of NHS Trusts and local authorities.