How HR can help the workforce overcome the 'disability stigma'

More than a third of UK workers believe disability is still a barrier to career progression, despite anti-discrimination legislation.

The study, commissioned by PMI Health Group, part of Willis Towers Watson, found that nearly one in five also claimed employers fail to make adequate provisions to accommodate their, or their colleagues’, disabilities.

Speaking to HR Grapevine, Paul Avis, Marketing Director at Canada Life Group Insurance, advises on what employers can do to make UK workers believe that disability isn’t a barrier to progression.

“There’s a clear evidence base that when an employee becomes disabled the cost of reasonable adaptation, i.e. to comply with the equality act, are minimal,” he says.