3. Disabled Workers, Employment Vulnerability and Labour Law

Abstract

Contemporary interest in vulnerable employment groups has focused on women, ethnic minorities and the secondary labour market. Social discrimination, marginal employment and low pay are the badges of vulnerability of these groups. As Section 2 shows, labour law's response to employment vulnerability has been piecemeal and tangential with the result that progress towards the enjoyment of basic employment rights by vulnerable workers has been slow and fortuitous. People with disabilities possess many of the traits of vulnerability shared by other disadvantaged groups but receive only a footnote in the pages of labour law. This article records the developing debate on the employment rights of disabled people and places it in the context of the current analysis of employment vulnerability.

Citation

Doyle, B. (1987), "3. Disabled Workers, Employment Vulnerability and Labour Law", Employee Relations, Vol. 9 No. 5, pp. 20-29. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055105