Disability Inclusion in the Workplace: Increasing Access and Opportunity
Overview
Highlights
People with disabilities make up a talent pool that can help staffing professionals meet their clients’ needs. In this webinar, learn about disability inclusion as a workforce strategy and the practices that staffing professionals—as employers and as providers of client services—can use to increase hiring of candidates with disabilities. Find out about disability employment resources available to staffing professionals and learn how you can capitalize on related initiatives, including the 30th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act and the 75th anniversary of “National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week,” which evolved into the annual observance of National Disability Employment Awareness Month each October.
During this webinar, attendees will
- Gain an understanding of the definition of “disability”
- Learn the core components of a disability-inclusive workplace
- Take away key strategies for implementing the core components
- Be able to identify key resources available to help increase disability inclusion within staffing companies and in their client organizations
Presenters
Andy Traub, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, vice president, human resources and InclusionWorks, Allied InclusionWorks
Louise E. Orslene, MPIA, MSW, co-director, The Job Accommodation Network
