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Call for more support to help those with autism into work
An autism charity has launched a campaign – Don’t Write Me Off – calling for more to be done to help people with autism into work and for better support for those who can’t work. Research from the National Autistic Society (NAS) has shown that just 15% of people with autism have a full-time job but that 79% of those on Incapacity Benefit want to work. The NAS ...
News | 13 Oct 2009
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Call for more support to help those with autism into work
...ndividual needs that just do not fit the standard tick-box systemic "wants". Differently challenged may also mean differently gifted as in Autism and Dyslexia let alone those with perceived sensory, mental or physical impairment loosly charactorised as disabled in some way, whateveeer that means for the individual, as everyone fits in somewhere on the spectrum of functionality. And until we address the real myth of what is perceived as normal and accept what it is normal is in fact the minority of those who are fully functional with well balanced and grounded grip on reality the fear of bre...
Comment | 14 Oct 2009
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A new age?
...er following bribery investigation; and London nurse wins `landmark' equal pay case. 27 SOCIAL WHIRL Social media sites enable users to build links with others, interact with them and establish an online existence, "The dramatic speed at which life expectancy is changing means that we need to radically rethink our perceptions about our later lives. We simply can't look to our grandparents' experience of retirement as a model for our own. We will live longer and we will have to save more." P.32 3 www.workplacelaw.net workplace law environmental editorial Comment from the Editor ... Workplace ...
Magazine issue | 5 Sep 2011
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
...ommon Safety' has finally been published and while it's hardly (as Workplace Law's Head of Health and Safety, Simon Toseland, puts it) `the bonfire of the health and safety regulations', it does tackle some of the elements of health and safety that have long been overdue for a change. It includes a call for the accreditation of health and safety consultants, an easing of the regulatory burden for smaller organisations, and the consolidation of existing legislation. We look in more depth at the details in the feature beginning on p.18, including experts' views of the review, and the opinions expres...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
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The world in your hands?
...ments is that tackling climate change is likely to move to the forefront of the workplace agenda during the coming decade. And it's not just as a response to achieving compliance. In September 2009, business leaders from over 500 companies from around the world published The Copenhagen Communiqué, calling on world leaders to agree "an ambitious, robust and equitable global deal on climate change that responds credibly to the scale and urgency of the crisis facing the world today". The Communiqué advised "Economic development will not be sustained in the longer term unless the climate is stabilis...
Magazine issue | 8 Jan 2010
