Large, for-profit organizations take a more active approach to recruiting employees with disabilities than smaller businesses or nonprofits. That’s one takeaway from a recent survey published by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Take a look at slides 19-21 in the version of “Employing People with Disabilities: Practices and Policies Related to Recruiting and [...]
Nearly every national issue the media covers gets defined by which politicians are in support of or in opposition to it; and while we’re in an election cycle, it seems as if every issue, great and small, is a dividing line between the two major U.S. political parties. So it was refreshing to read guest [...]
Happy 50th anniversary to SRVS! The Memphis, Tennessee, organization currently provides services for 850 people with disabilities in the city, including contract labor, skills development, transportation, and residential care. Newly minted executive director Tyler Hampton published a guest column in yesterday’s Memphis Commercial Appeal honoring the organization’s history, which began in 1962 with seven employees [...]
Part of our regular coverage of the job market for people with disabilities are the reports from the U.S. Department of Labor. Now April brings the quarterly composite data, which reveals an unemployment rate that is 74% higher among this population set, according to a story by Kristin Samuelson of the Chicago Tribune. Fortunately, more [...]
We’re picking up where we left off yesterday in the discussion of the U.S. Call Center and Consumer Protection Act (HR 3596), a piece of legislation introduced by Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) aimed at encouraging call-center businesses to keep customer service jobs in America instead of sending them overseas. Earlier this month, Software Advice blogger [...]
The push to bring outsourced jobs back to American shores gained momentum last week, when recently proposed legislation to close tax loopholes for call centers received an overwhelming endorsement from lawmakers. According to an article in last Friday’s Indian Express, 106 members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed on as co-sponsors to the U.S. [...]
With spring so much in the air this past weekend, it’s only appropriate we take some time to smell the flowers; not to mention the soil and the fertilizer that bring forth these beautifully blooming buds. The photo gallery accompanying last week’s Tulsa World article on people with disabilities working and getting job training in [...]
When the Maine Chamber of Commerce and the state departments of labor and health and human services held their conference in Freeport demonstrating the value of employing people with disabilities to area businesses earlier this month (which we touched on to make a point about outsourcing to Americans), Portland’s television station, WCSH channel 6, was [...]
The small gains in U.S. employment during March had a positive impact for people with disabilities. Shaun Heasley of Disability Scoop reported last Friday that the latest figures from the Department of Labor showed unemployment for people with disabilities dropping from 15.8% to 15.2% over the past month, as the economy added 120,000 jobs overall. [...]
Just like any other business, contract services have to evolve to stay in step with changes in the marketplace; meaning that people with disabilities who work in these environments have to be equally adaptable to learning new skills. In Missouri, a contract services organization is finding more work in recycling and packing than its traditional [...]