Firms are still discriminating against disabled workers despite moves to make it illegal.
The TUC said health and safety grounds were being used to refuse jobs to disabled people despite the Disability Discrimination Act.
It found evidence of wheelchair users being refused jobs because they would not be able to escape from a building during a fire or could get in the way of colleagues.
TUC general secretary John Monks said: "Safety is a poor excuse for discriminating against disabled people and it is not allowed by the law, which requires employers to remove the risks to people, not remove the people who may be at risk."
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