EMPLOYERS have been urged to employ more disabled workers instead of allowing their prejudices to affect recruitment decisions.
The TUC said some disabled people still had a "mountain to climb" if they wanted to find a job.
Just under half of people with disabilities were in work, an increase of about ten per cent compared with seven years ago, research for the union organisation found.
However, the TUC said odds were still stacked against disabled people finding employment.
Deputy general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "The law is now in place at last giving disabled people proper protection from poor treatment at work, but sadly employer attitudes still lag way behind the pace of legal change."
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