People with disabilities face disproportionately high levels of job security, underemployment and unemployment. This article highlights the importance of HR practices in the inclusion of these minority groups, and how the profession can improve.

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Jill Miller, former Senior Policy Adviser, Diversity and Inclusion, CIPD

Jill's work focused on the areas of gender, age and neurodiversity and she led work on race inclusion, managing drug and alcohol misuse at work, and supporting employees through fertility treatment, pregnancy loss and still birth. 

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