by John C. Fox | May 15, 2023 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)
- U.S. Office of Personnel Management Announced Proposed Rule on Pay Equity for Federal Workers
- USDOL ODEP Announced Themes for 2023 Disability Awareness Month & 50th Anniversary of Rehab Act
- In Brief
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
by Candee Chambers | Oct 8, 2019 | Podcast
Season 1 • Episode 1
With October being National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), we really wanted to hit home with invisible disabilities in the workplace. I sat down with Haley Moss to start a conversation about workplace obstacles, triumphs, and the neurodiverse community.
Subscribe links, guest bio, and full transcript available.
by DirectEmployers Guest | Oct 31, 2018 | Partners
The following article was authored by Angie Vandersteen from Indianapolis-based disability partner, Tangram Business Resourcing in support of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). Someone has applied for your open position. He has a stellar résumé...
by DirectEmployers Guest | Oct 27, 2016 | OFCCP Compliance, Partners
Reaching Out: Create an Approach Once you have identified several potential sourcing organizations (VR, community based organizations, non-profits, and organizations on campuses/universities), consider your approach to these organizations. Consider a method similar to...
by DirectEmployers Guest | Oct 20, 2016 | OFCCP Compliance, Partners
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) represent an 85% unemployment rate in the U. S.—a significant untapped talent pool that offers substantial potential to employers across all industries. According to the Institute for Corporate Productivity’s (i4cp) groundbreaking study, Employing People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, over a third of employers in high-performance organizations—those companies that excel in market share, revenue growth, profitability, and customer satisfaction over a five-year period—that employee people with IDD found them to be good talent matches for open positions.
by DirectEmployers Guest | Oct 18, 2016 | OFCCP Compliance, Partners
We are all in search of great talent. “If you want to have a workforce that thinks outside of the box I think it’s really important to be tapping into a diverse population like the population of workers with disabilities, because they live outside of the box....
by DirectEmployers Guest | Oct 30, 2015 | Job Seeker Advice, Networking and Education
The following blog post originally appeared on Member J.B. Hunt’s LinkedIn Career page and being shared with permission. When Christina Baggett was two years old, she began experiencing sickness after sickness. Her mom took her big brother in for a check-up one...
by DirectEmployers Guest | Oct 27, 2015 | OFCCP Compliance, Partners
The following post was authored by Leslie Long and David Kearon and is being shared with permission from our partner, Autism Speaks. This October marks the 70th anniversary of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), an opportunity for us all to...
by DirectEmployers Guest | Oct 13, 2015 | OFCCP Compliance, Partners
The following post was authored by Kathleen Lee and is being shared with permission from our partner, Cornell University’s Industrial Labor Relations (ILR) School. Every October, we are reminded of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) and the...
by DirectEmployers Guest | Oct 6, 2015 | OFCCP Compliance, Partners
The following post was authored by Sandy Moonert and is being shared with permission from our partner, Enable America. During this the 25th Anniversary year of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a recent court decision in Raleigh North Carolina further...
