Chris Jay

Oct 1, 2024 | hrmagazine.co.uk | Chris Jay

Many companies unintentionally overlook the unique needs of employees with disabilities when planning benefits packages, despite the fact that 24% of the population lives with a disability, according to data from the Office for National Statistics. However, addressing this gap can make a significant difference in attracting, recruiting and retaining talent, while enabling you to take meaningful steps towards becoming a more inclusive company.

Sep 30, 2024 | internationalairportreview.com | Chris Jay

Posted: 1 October 2024 | Chris Jay | Following revelations about the treatment of air travellers with disabilities, Chris Jay, Managing Director and Founder of Bascule Disability Training, explores steps airports can take to foster a positive perception of disability. If you watched Sophie Morgan’s recent UK documentary, Fight to Fly, you likely joined the nation in shock over the treatment of travellers with disabilities by certain airlines and airports.

Sep 25, 2024 | trainingjournal.com | Chris Jay

It’s virtually impossible to tackle a problem that you don’t know exists, which is the position many organisations are in when it comes to addressing hidden disability disclosure in the workplace.  Around 12.8 million people in the UK have a disability you can’t see Take for example, a member of staff who has a disability but feels that their manager may view them differently if they reveal it, so they decide to conceal it.

Jul 24, 2024 | countryroadsmagazine.com | Chris Jay

Each time the front door of Brenda’s Kitchen Puerto Rican Kitchen in downtown Leesville swings open, cool air carrying salsa music and the unmistakable scent of frying pork slips out. The flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, known as “la Bandera,” hangs in the window next to a sign that reads: “Welcome, Y’all!” Inside, multicolored pavas—straw hats traditionally worn by sugar cane cutters, coffee pickers, and other agricultural workers in Puerto Rico—hang from the walls.

Jun 1, 2024 | 64parishes.org | Chris Jay |Alexandra Kennon Shahin

The “Observer Effect”—a concept from the world of physics which states that the act of observation changes the thing that is being observed—doesn’t only apply to subatomic particles. It also applies to stuffed shrimp. It was a late summer afternoon in 2009, and I was in the middle of Allendale, a Shreveport neighborhood that local television news consistently paints as a hellscape of gang violence and urban decay. I was standing on the sidewalk across the street from C. C.