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The ongoing economic downturn has made disability discrimination among UK workers more pronounced, it has been claimed.

A new study conducted by Leonard Cheshire Disability and cited in the Independent suggests that one in 20 people with physical and mental impairments have lost their jobs over the course of the last 12 months.

Called Disability and the Downturn, the study found that more than half (52 per cent) of people surveyed had been the victims of discrimination over the last year, which was a rise of 11 per cent compared with 2007.

Also, 43 per cent believed they had been turned down for a job because of their disability - an increase from 36 per cent last year.

"Unemployment has a disproportionately penalising effect on disabled people, a destructive dynamic that is of increasing concern in times of national economic crisis," stated the authors of the research.

The report also predicted that the impact of the recession on disabled workers will worsen as more public service cuts are implemented.

Leonard Cheshire Disability has operations across the UK and it campaigns for the civil and human rights of disabled people.

30/12/2009 14:09