Disability Confident Gets Even More Farcical

[davidgillon]

Sigh, even the DWP admitted that Two Ticks was being abused and needed to be replaced because employers were overwhelmingly not following through on their commitments towards disabled people under the scheme. (Research showed one in five did nothing, and over half met only one of five commitments)

So it created Disability Confident as a (badly flawed) replacement

Then what does it do?

It hands Disability Confident status to every company that had Two Ticks

Utterly farcical

Article with comments by Yours Truly

At least it explains where DWP found 2400 firms to sign up to Disability Confident so quickly. 2300 of them didn't.

Comments

[hilarita]

It's a fucking farce.

[jesse_the_k]

It's ...

I'm afraid political discourse still eludes me, but I share your frustration.

[liv]

That really is infurianting. I used to be well-disposed towards employers that had the Two Ticks because although it doesn't affect me directly, I had a strong preference for working for orgs that do value disabled employees. So I feel a fool for thinking that companies actually had to do something to get the badge, rather than saying they would and then not doing anything.

[untonuggan]

it's positively Orwellian