Resources

Advocates

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There are currently 15 entries in this directory

Corporate Initiatives

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There are currently 11 resources in this directory

Accenture – Disability Inclusion

Accenture provides disabled workers with the latest technology, tools, and training to create a barrier-free workplace. These efforts include leadership and career growth programs, Accessibility Centers, the use of artificial intelligence, and more. Beyond its own work environment, Accenture is committed to helping other enterprises support prospective and current team members with disabilities and build more inclusive cultures for all.

Arc Angel Communications

Arc Angel Communications is a public relations firm that helps corporations, government agencies, and institutional organizations enhance their inclusion and diversity goals. Listen to Peter Miller’s interview with Managing Director David D’Arcangelo on the Giveback Podcast website, Google podcasts, Spotify, and Apple podcasts.

Boston Scientific

Boston Scientific’s LEAD Employee Resource Group embraces disability inclusion by emphasizing Leadership, Education, Allies, and Disabilities. It works specifically to raise awareness for problems faced by people with disabilities in the workplace. Boston Scientific also works with the US Business Leadership Network and its Going for Gold Project which has helped them better understand how to increase disability inclusion in the workplace.

ITV Broadcasting – Diversity Acceleration Plan, Partner with “Scope”

ITV is committed to increasing the representation of disabled people both on and off-screen at every level, and includes targets to improve the career opportunities for disabled talent working on ITV programmes, and to ensure there are entry-level career opportunities available for them. They also want their commissioning to better reflect the lives of disabled people on screen.

Kello Inclusive

Kello Inclusive is a Canadian talent agency a talent agency exclusively representing disabled and visibly different talent, with over 50 clients signed to date. Listen to Peter Miller’s interview with co-founder and COO Katie MacMillan on the Giveback Podcast website, Google podcasts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.

Lloyds Banking Group – Workplace Adjustment Programme

The Workplace Adjustment Programme is a groundbreaking initiative that has offered support to over 18,000 workers to date. With the help of Remploy, they’ve also created a work experience scheme for disabled people.

Northrop Grumman – Victory over Impairment and Challenge Enterprise

Allies for Disability Inclusion is committed to fostering an inclusive environment for disabled people and employees who are caregivers to family members in need. Their vision is an environment where everyone with the passion to create extraordinary products has the opportunity to contribute. Through inclusion, accommodation, communication, networking and community engagement they strive for an environment that includes disabled people.

Sainsbury – Purple Tuesday, You Can initiative, EnAble

Multiple initiatives both internal and external, help remove employment barriers for disabled people and foster inclusion and support

Salesforce – Abilityforce Equality Group

Abilityforce is an employee resource group dedicated to ensuring all employees feel empowered while advancing the company’s dialogue on accessibility and accommodation strategies. Abilityforce unites people with visible and invisible disabilities, employees with loved ones who are disabled, and allies. They work to make sure their physical and technological environments are accessible and designed for all by developing and implementing innovative practices that solve customer and employee needs.

UnitedHeath Group – Disability Inclusion, Disability Inclusion Internship Program

According to the team at UnitedHealth Group, disability inclusion is central to who it is and provides crucial perspectives that innovate its services and the healthcare industry at large. To build an inclusive culture and encourage team members to be their authentic selves, UnitedHealth Group hosts the Disability Inclusion Internship Program and observes National Disability Employment Awareness Month. It also fosters enterprise-wide accessibility, community engagement and support services, sustainable career growth, and more.

Walgreens – Transitional Work Group & Retail Employees with Disabilities Initiative

Walgreens is committed to integrating people disabled people throughout workplaces, fostering a disability inclusive workplace and culture that lets it tap into a wider pool of talent, retain valued team members, and gain insight into the needs of an important and expanding segment of the customer base.

Government Legislation/Policy/Program

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There are currently 10 resource items in this directory

New York Workers Disability Benefits (Article 9 of the WCL)

The Disability and Paid Family Leave Benefits Law (Article 9 of the WCL) provides weekly cash benefits to replace, in part, wages lost due to injuries or illnesses that do not arise out of or in the course of employment (WCL §204). If you get injured or become disabled while you are eligible for or are collecting unemployment benefits, and if your injury or disablement results in you being ineligible for unemployment benefits, you are eligible for disability benefits.

Australian Disability Discrimination Act

The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) makes it unlawful to discriminate against a person, in many areas of public life, including employment, education, getting or using services, renting or buying a house or unit, and accessing public places, because of their disability.

California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), the Unruh, California Civil Rights Act, & the Disabled Persons Act

These California State laws protect people from discrimination based on disability and help ensure equal access.

Disability Act of Ireland 2005

The Disability Act of 2005 enables the assessment of health and education needs occasioned to persons with disabilities by their disabilities, to enable ministers of the government to make provision, consistent with the resources available to them and their obligations in relation to their allocation, for services to meet those needs, to provide for the preparation of plans by the appropriate ministers of the government in relation to the provision of certain of those, and certain other services, to provide for appeals by those persons in relation to the non-provision of those services, to make further and better provision in respect of the use by those persons of public buildings and their employment in the public service and thereby to facilitate generally access by such persons to certain such services and employment and to promote equality and social inclusion and to provide for related matters.

Disability Laws and Acts by Country/Area

This United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs resource lists
disability laws and acts by country/area.

Equality Commission/Northern Ireland Act

The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland is a non departmental public body established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998. Our powers and duties derive from a number of statutes which have been enacted over the last decades, providing protection against discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, race, religion and political opinion, sex and sexual orientation. We also have responsibilities arising from the Northern Ireland Act 1998 in respect of the statutory equality and good relations duties which apply to public authorities.

New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000

The purpose of the New Zealand Health and Disability Act of 2000 is to provide for the public funding and provision of personal health services, public health services, and disability support services, and to establish new, publicly owned health and disability organizations.

Swedish Disability Services and Support Act

The purpose of the Swedish Disability Services and Support Act is to promote the conditions of a person with a disability to live and work as an equal member of society and to prevent and eliminate the disadvantages and obstacles caused by the disability.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Equal Opportunity Act of 2000

The Equal Opportunity Act of 2000 prohibits certain kinds of discrimination, to promote equality of opportunity between persons of different status, to establish an Equal Opportunity Commission and an Equal Opportunity Tribunal and for matters connected therewith.

UK Equality Act 2010

The Equality Act 2010 legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society. It replaced previous anti-discrimination laws with a single Act, making the law easier to understand and strengthening protection in some situations. It sets out the different ways in which it’s unlawful to treat someone.

Disability Resources

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