Are you ready for equal rights?
28 August 2012
By law all businesses should be accessible to disabled people, as the latest part of the Disability Discrimination Act comes into force today.
From 1 October 2004, it is against the law for any employer (apart from the armed forces) of any size to discriminate against a disabled person because of their disability.
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) says that the effectiveness of the new law – which requires every business to ensure its premises are accessible to the UK’s 10 million disabled people...