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 [...]
MSD in the UK trained a mixed team of Mental Health First Aiders that holds regular team meetings and organized a range of events on-site. These events include information roadshows, lunchtime walks, Easter-egg hunts, yoga sessions, ‘Tea & Talk’ and ‘Curry & Chat’ events. Other activities have provided employees [...]
Merck Global Workplace Enterprise Services is conducting Global Disability and Inclusion reviews on all global projects. This groundbreaking project provides feedback on cross functional aspects of the projects. To date, countries have included France, Germany and Singapore.
With the Johnson & Johnson employee resource group (ERG), Alliance for Diverse Abilities, expanding to over 60 global chapters, the ERGs priorities center on various aspects of disability, including workplace mental health and well-being. In celebration of World Mental Health Day, Mental Health Diplomats partnered with Johnson & Johnson’s [...]
In their Sao Paulo factory, Boehringer employs thirteen employees who are deaf. To ensure their full inclusion, human resources conducts sensitivity meetings with managers and provides a LIBRAS training course to help all employees learn Brazilian Sign Language. The company also emphasizes that all collective actions, such as meetings and [...]
Universal Design is an initiative through the Global Workforce Enterprise Services that is creating universally accessible workplaces on Merck sites. Universal Design is ensuring that all Merck employees can comfortably and safely access their workplace; the project has been a collaborative process with a Disability-Owned Business Enterprise (DOBE). [...]
The Global Supplier Diversity team has started a Policymaker Engagement initiative, expanding to engage with Disability:IN and other advocacy groups to inform state and federal policymakers on important policy issues to BMS and their partners that include DOBE suppliers, their collective footprints in their states and legislative districts, the [...]
Merck partners with their Long-Term Disability vendor Cigna on a Stay At Work program. By referring employees to this Cigna program, the employees connect with a Cigna Vocational Coach to talk through the needs of the employee and their disability. Cigna then helps Merck provide employees with recommended accommodations [...]
At Astellas Pharma, one of the most productive thought areas for making benefits plan and policy improvements has come from their Astellas Abilities Employee Impact Group. The Abilities EIG, comprised of employees focused on improving the lives of people living with disabilities, provides recommendations to their Benefits Team that [...]
Internal Bristol Myers Squibb research shows that employees who report working in a more inclusive environment are 5.5 times more likely to feel supported experimenting with new ideas, and 20 times more engaged. Possibility Lives platform launched at Bristol Myers Squibb explains how all of us create an inclusive workplace by practicing the right habits, at the [...]