Employment struggles continue after pandemic for those with disabilities

There has also been the loss of existing means of support with layoffs and economic turmoil costing livelihoods among the PWD population too

Disability activists condemned Indigo Airlines’ poor treatment of a teenager with special needs earlier this month. Another ongoing battle has been the one with employment.

Preeti Monga has been getting more phone calls from persons with disabilities seeking jobs after the pandemic than before. This despite the founder and chief executive officer of the Silver Linings Trust, an organization which works with persons with disabilities (PWDs), having shifted focus from placements to education many years ago.

She sees the rise as indicative of a potential increase in PWD unemployment. There are more people unemployed after the economic ravages of the