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TUC Congress decisions including passing motion 13, Composite 2 A workplace agenda for disabled workers

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You can find the decisions from the 2010 Trades Union Congress here.

13 A workplace agenda for disabled workers


Submitted by TUC Disability Conference


Congress welcomes achievements for disabled workers over the last decade, including extending the Disability Discrimination Act to all workplaces, the Disability Equality Duty, and funding for Access to Work.


However, Congress remains concerned that:
    •    disability discrimination prevents disabled men and women getting and staying in work
    •    fear and lack of information are still major factors preventing disabled people getting their reasonable adjustments
    •    the current economic situation further worsens the position of disabled workers across workplaces.


Congress calls on the General Council, TUC Disability Committee and affiliates to:

campaign for redundancy matrices, sickness absence, health and safety, bonus, capability and other procedures explicitly to include protection from disability discrimination, while continuing to monitor the impact of the global economic crisis on disabled workers; and provide affiliates with a negotiating toolkit to assess workplace policies and procedures to identify disability discrimination and include examples of model agreements


identify specific industrial disability equality issues to be addressed – including industrial injuries to those who drive at work now wrongly classified as road traffic accidents – and support for agency workers on responsibility for reasonable adjustments
develop and support a positive trade union workplace agenda for disabled workers demonstrating the importance of trade union membership to disabled workers, backed up by monitoring, participation and trade union education.
 

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