NEARLY a third of disabled workers have been treated unfairly at work during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a TUC poll published today.

The survey of more than 2,000 people with disabilities or health conditions reveals that the substantial workplace barriers that they faced before the pandemic have increased.

Some 30 per cent said that they had been treated worse than non-disabled colleagues, while more than one in five who should have been shielding worked outside their home most of the time – despite furlough money being available to employers to allow disabled workers to stay at home.