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Helping disabled people to work: a cross-national study of social security and employment provisions; a report for the Social Security Advisory Committee
- Authors:
- THORNTON Patricia, SAINSBURY Roy, BARNES Helen
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office/University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 164p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research paper presenting a comparative study of the employment of disabled people, focusing in particular on the need to be flexible in terms of hours worked and breaks needed. Also looks at the disabling effects of many working environments.
Strategies to promote the retention of disabled workers in eight countries
- Author:
- THORNTON Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 53, Spring 1999, pp.7-10.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
Discusses job retention policy of policy makers and rehabilitation service providers in Western Europe to prevent people losing their jobs unnecessarily because of illness, injury or disability.