Glass walls for volunteers?

Summary:

Voluntary work can be an important step to gaining the valuable skills needed to attain paid work. But volunteers do not enjoy the same protection as workers when it comes to disability discrimination.

VOLUNTEERING is central to the government’s Big Society vision. In February, it launched a scheme whereby voluntary organisations can have a presence in Jobcentre Plus …

John Ballard, editor

Author: Ballard J

Tags case law disability discrimination voluntary work

Occupational Health at Work April/May 2011 (vol. 07/6) pp3

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