Jim Murphy, the minister for employment and welfare reform, said “that research showed that almost half of UK employers believed there were difficulties in employing a person with clinical depression. This figure rose to almost three-quarters with regard to schizophrenia, illustrating how little attitudes had changed”.
However, this is disputed by Steve Walker, health and safety environment adviser at the manufacturers’ organisation EEF who said “there is still a mot more work to be done in terms of removing stigma and managing stress, but it is an unfair appraisal to say employers are in the backwater on this issue”. This was supported by the CBI who said that “its figures showed that the vast majority of employers offered rehabilitation support when staff became ill”.
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