Social security, employment and Incapacity Benefit: critical reflections on<i>A new deal for welfare</i>

Grover, Chris; Piggott, Linda

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“…The primary strategy of industrialized welfare states has been an investment in employment readiness and training programs and anti-discrimination legislation (Grover & Piggott, 2007;Humpage, 2007). However, at the time of the UNCRPD's adoption, there existed substantial heterogeneity in the types of legal protections and service systems available to people with disabilities on a country-by-country basis.…”

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Leveraging Employer Practices in Global Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

Saleh

Bruyère

2018

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Work is an important part of life, providing both economic security and a forum to contribute one's talents and skills to society, thereby anchoring the individual in a social role. However, access to work is not equally available to people with disabilities globally. Regulatory environments that prohibit discrimination and support vocational training and educational opportunities constitute a critical first step toward economic independence. However, they have not proven sufficient in themselves. In this article, we aim to infuse deeper consideration of employer practice and demand-side policy reforms into global policy discussions of the right to work for people with disabilities. We begin by documenting the employment and economic disparities existing for people with disabilities globally, followed by a description of the international, regional, and local regulatory contexts aiming to improve labor market outcomes for people with disabilities. Next, we examine how policies can leverage employer interests to further address inequalities. We discuss employer policies and practices demonstrated in the research to facilitate recruitment, hiring, career development, retention, and meaningful workplace inclusion. The goal of the article is to synthesize existing international literature on employment rights for people with disabilities with the employer perspective.

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Leveraging Employer Practices in Global Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

Saleh

Bruyère

2018

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“…The concern was that under the existing IB regime of income replacement benefits for disabled people, those people who could support themselves through paid work had been able to absent themselves from doing so through medical assessments that were too easy to pass (Grover and Piggott, 2007). Both political and public discourses were structured by the assumption that there were too many 'feigners' receiving such financial support.…”

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Disability and Social (In)Security: Emotions, Contradictions of ‘Inclusion’ and Employment and Support Allowance

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Piggott²

2012

Social Policy & Society

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The focus of this article is on the ways in which emotions are engaged in the discursive construction and treatment of disabled people in receipt of social security benefits. The article draws upon the literature related to the social importance of emotions and that concerned with moral boundary drawing. It argues that the evocation of emotional reactions is crucial in understanding the ways in which changes to out-of-work benefits for disabled people (the development of Employment and Support Allowance) have recently been effected and the ways in which this has reflected a desire to more closely denote those judged able and not able to work in a redrawing of the 'disability category' . While this has been done in the name of 'inclusion' , the article concludes that its consequences are, in various ways, the 'exclusion' and stigmatisation of disabled people.

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“…Arguments for the introduction of ESA were related to a perception that IB was not targeted enough upon 'genuinely' sick people and/or those with impairments. In particular, it was argued that because of the way IB was structured access to it was too easy, and once people accessed it, it encouraged them to remain on it for long periods of time (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 2006; for critique see Grover and Piggott 2007). While the introduction of ESA has, for some people who are sick and/or who have impairments, quite significant impacts in the amount of money they will receive each week, it is fair to say that the proposal to introduce it was not as controversial as the leaked proposals in the first New Labour government that suggested a shift of resources from the social security budget, including money spent on sick and impaired claimants, to the health and education budgets (Piggott and Grover 2009).…”

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From Incapacity Benefit to Employment and Support Allowance: social sorting, sickness and impairment, and social security

Grover

Piggott

2010

Policy Studies

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This article focuses upon the introduction of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) as a replacement for the main income replacement benefit, Incapacity Benefit (IB), for sick and/or disabled people in Britain. The article argues that the process of claiming ESA, a process that is dependent upon medicalised perceptions of capability to work and which is aimed at managing the perceived economic and social costs of sick and impaired people, is a means of sorting sick and/or disabled people into subgroups of claimants. The article goes on to discuss the implications of this observation with regard to explanations of the disadvantages that sick and/or disabled people face and their implications for the income of such people. The article concludes that because the shift from IB to ESA is premised upon a number of mistaken assumptions, it represents a retrograde development for people who are sick and/or who have impairments.

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Social security, employment and Incapacity Benefit: critical reflections onA new deal for welfare

Cited by 23 publications

References 18 publications

Leveraging Employer Practices in Global Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

Leveraging Employer Practices in Global Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

Disability and Social (In)Security: Emotions, Contradictions of ‘Inclusion’ and Employment and Support Allowance

From Incapacity Benefit to Employment and Support Allowance: social sorting, sickness and impairment, and social security

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