Source: Occupational Health Issue: 1 November 2010 Date: 01-11-2010 Publisher: RBI

Charity reveals cancer knowledge gap

TOPICS:
equal opportunities disability
health and safety employee health


Employers that are unaware of their legal responsibilities towards people diagnosed with cancer are failing to make simple changes in the workplace that could enable them to stay in work or return to work after treatment, a charity has said.

Research by Macmillan Cancer Support has argued that more than half of UK line managers are unaware that cancer is covered by the Disability Discrimination Act (now part of the Equality Act 2010).

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