• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition and committing to offering a disabled person an opportunity such as work experience, job shadowing or paid employment (among other opportunities).
Find out more about becoming a Disability Confident employer.
Scotland The Scottish Government has provided new funding to help address workplace barriers; more disabled parents will be helped into work following an additional £6 million aimed at reducing both the disability employment gap and child poverty. With only around 40% of working age disabled adults in employment, compared with more than 80% of non- disabled adults, the new funding is part of an action plan outlining how this gap can be at least halved over the next 20 years. The plan sets an initial ambition to increase the employment rate of disabled people to 50% by 2023 then to 60% by 2030.
View A Fairer Scotland for Disabled People: Employment Action Plan.
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Getting the right people with the right skills 17 January 2019
A new Acas poll has revealed that over half of workers (53%) believe that getting the right people with the right skills will be the biggest issue faced by their workplace in the year ahead. The other two top issues identified were technological change (36%) and productivity (36%).
15% of respondents to the research said that they didn’t think there will be any issues faced by their current workplace in the next year (15%).
Acas commissioned YouGov to find out what UK employees identified as the most important workplace issues in the year ahead. The poll took place between 13 and 21 December 2018 and surveyed 2035 employees below senior- manager level. Participants were asked to pick the three biggest issues faced by their current workplace in 2019. The full results were: • Getting the right people with the right skills (53%) • Productivity (36%) • Technological change (36%) • Fit and healthy staff (18%) • Equality and fairness (17%) • Other (16%) • Not applicable - I don't think there will be any issues faced by my current workplace in the next year (15%) • Don't Know (6%) • Tackling sexual harassment (3%)
Acas Chief Exec, Susan Clews, said:
"Employees feel that getting workers with the right skills is a key concern in the year ahead. This could be attributed to uncertainty around our relationship with the EU at the moment or general concerns around skills shortages…”
Acas has done a lot of work on the UK's productivity puzzle with advice and a diagnostic tool for organisations. For more information visit Building Productivity in the UK.
Acas published research in 2017 which revealed how technological advances at work can have wide ranging and often overlooked implications for employment relations and health and wellbeing: Mind Over Machines: New technology and employment relations.
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