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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Disabled workers 'facing discrimination during downturn'  Many disabled workers in the UK are facing discrimination during the ongoing economic downturn, it has been suggested. A new report produced by Leonard Cheshire Disability found that one in 20 such people lost their jobs over the course of the last year. Entitled Disability and the Downturn, the research warns that disabled staff members are being targeted for redundancy. In addition, employers are unfairly turning them down for new jobs, the organisation claimed. Leonard Cheshire Disability - which aims to change attitudes to disability and to serve disabled people across the globe - described the discovery as "worrying". It added: "Not only are disabled people more likely to be out of work and experience a higher incidence of in-work poverty, they face additional financial costs arising as a result of an impairment." The charity went on to claim that unemployment has a disproportionately penalising effect on disabled individuals, which is an issue of rising concern in times of economic turbulence. Commenting on the issue, Lamport Bassitt's Jonathan Gray said: "Until the Equality Bill becomes law, the main protection for disabled employees/job applicants under current disability laws is that an employer should consider making reasonable adjustments before they act to the detriment of the disabled person. "This may for example be adjusting a redundancy selection criteria so that is does not discriminate against a disabled employee, or adjusting an interview process for disabled applicants, so they have the same chance as a non disabled applicant." 
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