Graduate employers eye equality law - graduate jobs

Unfair discrimination which may prevent university leavers from getting graduate jobs will be banned in a new bill due to be passed next spring.

The Equality Bill will state that employers, including graduate job providers, cannot discriminate against potential staff due to ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender or disability.

Director of employment services at the disability charity Scope, Steve Cairns, told the Guardian: "Of our workforce, 22 per cent have a disability and we aim to improve that proportion at all levels, with 50 per cent of senior managers being people with disabilities by 2018."