Long Covid & The Equality Act 2010.

How do employers really look at employing disabled people today?

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This article was reviewed, edited, and updated by the author, on 10th April 2022🖨️📝…

The Equality Act 2010, as most readers of this article will already know well is an Act of Parliament passed in the United Kingdom during the time of Gordon Brown’s leadership with the primary purpose of consolidating, updating, and supplementing the numerous prior Acts and Regulations, that formed the basis of anti-discrimination law in mostly England, Scotland, and Wales, relating more specifically at those people with disability and/or religious, moral, or ethnic background. An Act by which is to ensure that none of these so-called ‘conditions’ would initiate a negative impact upon the past, present, or future opportunities for those disabled in regards to employment prospects.

Ensuring that everyone wanting to gain work could do so, without fear of the narrow-minded attitudes adopted by some employers used for the screening of job applications.

A report carried out by the London School of Economics discovered that:

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Jonathan Townend, RMN - Editor - Friend of Medium

Psychiatric Nurse Writer. Owner of Creative Passions, The Shortform, No Shame, World of Fiction publications, and co-editor for The Chocolate River.