Covid: Disabled people 'forced to choose life or livelihood’ during pandemic

One in five disabled employees had their request to work from home, be furloughed or redeployed during the pandemic rejected, research has shown. Scope found 22% of disabled staff were put in an "impossible position" of having to choose between keeping their job or staying safe. It wants the government to give people on the clinically extremely vulnerable list the automatic right to furlough. The government said it was the employer's responsibility. In a statement, the Treasury said:...