Why employer inflexibility matters for the recruitment, retention and progression of disabled workers

Abstract

This article outlines recent debates in the UK on the requirement to enhance all employees’ rights to request Flexible Working by making it the default position. I consider if, and how, this change could be beneficial for disabled people when competing against non-disabled people for good quality jobs.

Keywords:

• Flexible working
• reasonable adjustments
• SME
• disability
• flex-ability
• employers

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

Funded by ESRC: ES/X003760/1