Unum UK hosts local disability service providers for staff training and awareness, sponsors employees with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions on the Disability Rights UK Leadership Academy Programme, and supports the Superhero Series, the UK’s one and only disability sports series. Further, Unum UK recently received the Disability Confident [...]
Working with a local non-governmental organization, the Nour initiative began by helping seven people with vision loss gain employment in direct sales using a simple Braille label added to packs to make the selling process feasible. Today, Nour has helped to train and find rewarding employment for 70 people [...]
Management Practices" "In July 2018, Travelers UK received Clear Assured foundation level accreditation and was the first UK insurance company to receive a Bronze award for the finding talent category. In January 2019, Travelers UK received another Bronze award for assessing talent and became the only insurance company to [...]
In India, Boeing has put in place a reasonable accommodations process supporting the interviewing and onboarding of people with disabilities, offering them technical aids, necessary training and full-time sign language support. In addition, Boeing has partnered with enAble India to identify open technical positions for assistance in the sourcing [...]
TD is the only bank in Canada to have a dedicated Assistive Technologies Research Lab that ensures that AT standards are up to date and offer the most possible benefits to TD Bank employees. The team researches, develops and tests the latest in AT to provide employees access to [...]
An exclusive hiring drive for people with disabilities has fueled the success of the program – from improving experiences and accommodations and adjustments policies and processes to a greater number of new talents with disabilities. Synchrony has successfully hired 550 people with disabilities in the United States and at [...]
SAP’s internationally recognized Autism at Work program, operating in 13 countries, demonstrates a commitment to skills and strengths rather than on what others may view as impairments. SAP employs more than 160 colleagues with autism. By embracing differences, SAP helps spark innovation — while challenging assumptions and inspiring change. [...]
In its Pramerica business located in Ireland, Prudential Financial has an ADAPT employee resource group chapter that has instituted a campaign to educate employees on the inclusion of employees with non-apparent disabilities. Videos of employees with mental health disabilities telling their stories have been produced and meetings held to [...]
For the third year in a row, Northrop Grumman sponsored three Japanese individuals with disabilities to attend the TOMODACHI Disability Leadership Program in America. During the four-month program, each participant completed an internship with a local organization and attended weekly leadership seminars and English classes. Furthermore, Northrop Grumman Australia [...]
As part of the launch of the Disability Business Resource Council in The Philippines, Northern Trust conducted disability and mental health awareness sessions that were made available to all employees.