Disability Inclusion Employment Best Practices
Covering benefits, talent acquisition, retention, advancement, and accommodations, this report details best practices from those who participated in the Disability Equality Index (DEI).
Covering benefits, talent acquisition, retention, advancement, and accommodations, this report details best practices from those who participated in the Disability Equality Index (DEI).
Similar to when a new employee joins a company, onboarding a service animal takes coordination and communication across several business departments.
Quick insight into Women and Mental Illness from some of the leading institutions, including: Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Mayo Clinic, World Health Organization and others.
If your company is going to get serious about disability inclusion, it needs to get real about unconscious bias. EY, Kaiser Permanente, and others identified, and then challenged, their own assumptions. They hired people who were qualified for the job, but happened to have a disability. Then they experienced, first-hand, how inclusion positively affected their business. Check out the video!
A Centralized Reasonable Accommodations Fund is an enterprise-wide general fund to either partially cover or entirely cover reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities and is considered a corporate best practice. With a centralized reasonable accommodations fund, hiring managers and supervisors do not need to worry about how this may impact their unit/department budget. Learn more.
By 2020, mental and substance use disorders will surpass all physical diseases as the major causes of disability worldwide (NIH). Many of your employees and their families are impacted by mental illness and this may adversely affect productivity, increase absenteeism, and disrupt teamwork. The goal of Disability:IN’s Roadmap to Mental Wellness in the Workplace is to inspire action, improve workplace productivity, and impact the well-being of millions of employees and their families around the world.
Disability Inclusion is taking the center stage at the 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos. Here are 3 steps to tap into the talent of 1 billion people with disabilities around the world.