Disabled workers ‘paid £3,000 less per year than other employees’
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Disabled workers are paid 15 per cent less than other employees, a gap of around £3,000 a year, a new study suggests. The TUC said its research indicated that disabled people effectively work for free for the last 57 days of the year, so they stop getting paid from today. Around half of disabled people are in work, compared to more than four-fifths of non-disabled people, a gap of almost 30 per cent, said the TUC. “The next government must commit to halving the disability employment gap, which has been stuck around 30 per cent behind for over a decade.” PA
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