UCU: Improving reasonable adjustments and Access to Work for disabled members

Motion

Motion title: Improving reasonable adjustments and Access to Work for disabled members

Motion text: Congress notes:
1. A major driver of casualisation, unemployment and poverty amongst disabled working people is a failure of employers and government to provide the necessary adjustments and funding for Access to Work
2. The government’s pandering to anti-equality demands of the far right, demonstrates the need for equality of disabled workers
3. Delays in Access to Work, and a failure of employers to implement Disability Leave policies, often mean disabled workers are left without agreed adjustments.
Congress believes:
a. Post-16 educational institutions must do more to deliver the reasonable adjustments they are required by law to provide.
Congress instructs NEC to:
i. Relaunch the Day of Action for Disability Equality in Education campaign, highlighting challenges to reasonable adjustment and providing resources
ii. Campaign for employers to meet their duty to provide reasonable adjustments and pay where necessary.
iii. Campaign alongside DPOs (disabled people’s organisations) on the wider issue of Access to Work reforms.