2014
DOI: 10.1111/1748-8583.12060
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The influence of trade union Disability Champions on employer disability policy and practice

Abstract: This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link AbstractDisability Champions are a new type of lay workplace trade union activist, whose role is to encourage employers to audit and improve disability policies and offer independent advice and guidance on disability issues to employees. Drawing on a survey of the population of Disability Champions, this paper assesses Disability Champion influence on employer disabi… Show more

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“…The literature section identified union campaigning and influence on legislative and regulatory issues affecting disabled people (Bacon and Hoque, 2015). For our participants, however, union outcomes were mainly confined to the workplace level.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The literature section identified union campaigning and influence on legislative and regulatory issues affecting disabled people (Bacon and Hoque, 2015). For our participants, however, union outcomes were mainly confined to the workplace level.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite moves to include specialist representatives, problems remain -few union representatives feel that their equality efforts are supported by employers (Heery, 2006); disability law remains complex; the training of such representatives remains problematic (Foster and Fosh, 2010); for those in-post issues of time, resources and competing priorities undermine their efforts (Foster, 2015); and securing reasonable adjustments for disabled workers remains complex (Bacon and Hoque, 2015).…”
Section: Trade Unions and Equalitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One result of this arrangement is that gig workers generally do not organize their collective labor [ 26 ]. Indeed, the transportation online app Uber has funded an Independent Drivers Guild on the proviso that its participants do not unionize [ 26 , 27 ].…”
Section: Gig Workers With Disabilitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Is gig work sought as a consequence of disability, of discrimination in traditional employment, or of insufficient income from governmental benefits programs and those programs’ disincentives to obtain and retain employment [ 27 , 61 – 63 ]? While gig work is a viable and important option for many with disabilities, supporting traditional employment options must remain a prime focus of governmental regulatory policy [ 64 ].…”
Section: Gig Workers With Disabilitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It was notable, for example, that none of the policies indicated that certain conditions, such as cancer, are, as Karim and Maynard ([19], p. 20) put it, treated as disabilities "in their own right, without the need to demonstrate a substantial adverse effect on normal day-to-day activities". The fourth problem with the definition arises from workers being reluctant to declare a disability for fear of discrimination (e.g., [64], cited in [65], p. 233), with this appearing, in the RAS, to have been a particular problem for those with mental health conditions. Indeed, 16 of the 21 participants, who indicated that they had decided not to declare their disability, recorded themselves as having a mental health condition.…”
Section: The Definition Of Disabledmentioning
confidence: 99%