Judy Owens’ Diary of a Start-up blog for Forbes should be bookmarked by anyone interested in the employment outlook of people with disabilities. For over a year now, the St. Petersburg, Florida, entrepreneur has provided a running account of her launch of Opportunity Works, Inc., a job placement service for people with disabilities, and it has [...]
Hiring people with disabilities has been a healthy business decision for a gym in the New Orleans suburbs, improving the workplace while providing skills and work experience to these individuals and easing the demand on taxpayer-supported services. Kari Dequine Harden, who works in the New Orleans bureau of the Baton Rouge’s daily, The Advocate, visited [...]
Picking up where we left off yesterday in the examination of the Boston Globe online feature, “Products made in Massachusetts,” to see which ones might provide good employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Alden Rowing Shells This Boxborough manufacturer of recreational and competitive rowing shells and accessories is frequently credited as making the sport accessible [...]
Today, we continue looking at manufacturing companies listed in the Boston Globe online feature, “Products made in Massachusetts,” to find where people with disabilities might be a good fit for employment opportunities. Cubist Pharmaceuticals Much like HP Hood, the HR department for this Lexington drug manufacturer uses inclusive phrasing (“Reasonable accommodations may be made to [...]
Advocates for people with disabilities have focused a great deal of their recent efforts to boost employment opportunities for these individuals on the manufacturing sector. Labor Department officials and business leaders across the U.S. worked hard in 2012 to make the case that hiring these individuals, either through contract service organizations or as full-time employees, [...]
Yesterday’s post made a reference to employee resource groups (ERGs) at Northrop-Grumman being a key to their success providing employment opportunities to people with disabilities, both within the organization as well as through contract service organizations. Forming an ERG for people with disabilities is recommended by the Office of Disability Employment Policy in its publication [...]
Hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year’s celebration. Now that “Auld Lang Syne” has been sung and the noisemakers and party hats have been put away for another 365 days, we can look at what’s in store for 2013. One advocate for people with disabilities has already thrown the gauntlet down and is [...]
A pair of recent newspaper articles about helping more people with disabilities enter the workforce shows not just how employment helps make life matter more for these individuals, but also the bottom-line benefits for the community they live in and America as a whole. Finding employment for even a small fraction of people with disabilities [...]
We conclude our series with a look at the 50,000 euro grand prize winner and runner-ups in the Social Participation category at the 2012 Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards. Vodafone, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of mobile phone technology, launched the first competition last year with the help of the European Disability Forum and AGE [...]
Hope everyone had a nice Christmas Day with their loved ones. We pick up on Monday’s review of the 2012 Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards with a look at the winning entry and two runner-ups in the Mobility category. Obviously, Mobility apps are right in the wheelhouse of smartphone technology developers. When you’re out of [...]