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Workforce Excellence
Corporate Initiatives that Include Employees with Disabilities
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All businesses and organizations
are engaged in a “war for talent”
The workforce as a whole will age as employees stay on the job well past today’s standard retirement age. One of the residual effects will be an increase in the numbers of workers with disabilities.
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Cultivating an inclusive corporate culture can attract top talent among
candidates with and without disabilities
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Implementing a vigorous, expansive recruiting strategy provides companies with a wide-range of talent, critical to the success of any enterprise
It’s time your organization took a closer look at workers with disabilities
18.6 million workers with disabilities contribute their talents to companies and organizations large and small*
They are attorneys, warehouse managers, retail service personnel and local, state and federal employees
Students with disabilities are graduating with IT, engineering, accounting, law and science degrees
*Reference: Census 2000 Summary File #3 (March 2003, U.S. Census Bureau).
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What do NFI Award** winners IBM®, Cingular Wireless® and SunTrust Banks, Inc.® have in common? They actively recruit, hire and promote candidates with disabilities
Why? Performance – Retention – Attendance
The typical cost of a job accommodation is $600
or less, some don’t cost anything
How to access this talent pool? Visit www.dol.gov/odep
The Office of Disability Employment Policy’s Job Accommodation Network (JAN) conducted a customer satisfaction survey on uses of JAN's services. The most frequently mentioned direct benefits of working with JAN were:
(1) Retaining qualified employees
(2) Increasing worker productivity
(3) Eliminating costs of training
Source: JAN/Law, Health Policy, and Disability Center (LHPDC) satisfaction survey 01/2004 - 09/2005. As of September 2005, LHPDC interviewed 890 employers.
**The New Freedom Initiative Awards are presented to organizations, employers and individuals who make a difference in the workplace for Americans with disabilities.
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Employer Resources:
www.jan.wvu.edu
800-526-7234 (V/TTY)
1-866-EARN-NOW, V/TTY
www.earnworks.com
Office of Disability Employment Policy
U.S. Department of Labor • 200 Constitution Ave., NW • Washington, DC 20210
Voice: 1-866-ODEP-DOL (633-7365) • TTY: 1-877-889-5627 • Fax: 1-202-693-7888
www.dol.gov/odep
