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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Disabled job applicants 'face discrimination'  Jobs applicants who have health problems face discrimination when they try to find employment. This is according to Donna Miller, HR director at Enterprise Rent-a-Car, who told Personnel Today that firms often disregard potential workers on the basis of a physical or mental health issue. She made her comments in the wake of the introduction of a new clause into the Equality Bill under which employers would be prevented from asking candidates questions about their health that are unrelated to the role being applied for. Ms Miller added: "Employers shouldn't be allowed to make decisions at the front end of employment about someone's health condition with which they have very little or no information about." She added that, in the current system, there is little chance of applicants getting through the recruitment process once line managers get hold of detrimental information on a health form. Designed to simplify the law and make it clearer, the Equality Bill was introduced in the House of Commons in April last year. Jonathan Gray from Lamport Bassitt solicitors stated: "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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