Current Issues: Is the workplace about to get better or worse for disabled people in the United Kingdom?

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open access articleIn the United Kingdom, the new labour government has recently unveiled two new bills, the Employment Rights Bill and Equality Race and Disability Bill, that seem to strengthen the 2010 Equality Act. However, it is not clear how these bills will address the disability employment gap. The government’s policy to Make Work Pay has many good points like more transparency in terms of race, gender and disability pay gaps but it also raises questions about what devolvement to local authorities to get more disabled and chronically ill people into work will look like? This seems to target disabled and chronically ill people and does not think about how to create more enabling workplace environments following the social model