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 (DPOs) that asked for the legal advice to be published.
The independent employment advice and conciliation service (ACAS ) Guidance Using Protected Characteristics in Recruitment is now available for employers and makes it clear that they can:
- seek to recruit a disabled person with a specific impairment if there is a “genuine occupational requirement” for them to do so
- advertise for and recruit disabled people to any role, without the risk of disability discrimination and without the need to demonstrate that there is an occupational requirement for a disabled person.
- treat a disabled person more favourably compared to a non-disabled person in the hiring process
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