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  • New Recruitment Guidance for Employers

    New Recruitment Guidance for Employers

    26 June 2023

    New guidance stressing that employers are allowed to reserve jobs for disabled people should help narrow the disability employment gap, say the Disabled People’s Organisations that asked for the legal advice to be published. The guidance, ‘Using Protected Characteristics in Recruitment’ is now available for employers from ACAS.

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  • New ACAS Advice on Taking Leave to Look After a Dependent

    New ACAS Advice on Taking Leave to Look After a Dependent

    10 September 2020

    Employees are entitled to time off work to help someone who depends on them (a ‘dependant’) in an unexpected event or emergency. This could apply to situations to do with Coronavirus and may be useful to support management of circumstances where personal assistants request time off work to help someone who depends on them if they become unwell due to COVID-19 .

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