Acas has published a new guide called 'Disability discrimination: key points for the workplace'.

The guide aims to provide:

"employers, senior managers, line managers, HR personnel, employees, employee/trade union representatives and job applicants a grounding into how disability discrimination can occur in the workplace, how it can be dealt with and how to reduce the chance of future discrimination."

under the following headings

* What is disability discrmination? * How disability discrmination can happen * Key areas of employment where it can happen * Considerations for everyone * How employees should raise complaints * How employers shoud handle discrimination complaints

It can be downloaded from the Acas website here.