UNISON wins clearer COVID-19 guidance for its disabled members

UNISON has successfully lobbied for the government’s COVID-19 guidance to acknowledge that many of the ‘extremely vulnerable’ people who have been instructed to shield at home during the pandemic are also workers – whose employers may not have been sympathetic.
Until the end of May, the guidance on shielding did not adequately take into account disabled people in employment.
UNISON national officer for disability equality Deirdre Costigan said: “From the beginning,