Op-ed: Employers’ fears of disability hiring are groundless
October 6th, 2009Writing in Business Week, Ralph Braun says studies show that hiring people with disabilities does not create higher costs for businesses, and yet the myths persist.
He says employer bias poses significant barriers to hiring for people with disabilities, and quotes a recent study that found only 40 percent of American working-age adults with disabilities are employed, either full- or part-time. An excerpt:
The fact is, employees with physical disabilities can do for your business what they’ve done for themselves: Move it forward, one step (or wheel turn) at a time.
Ralph Braun, who uses a wheelchair, is CEO of BraunAbility in Winamac, Ind.
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October 6th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
One way to help this is to teach disability awareness in schools. October is disability awareness and history month. Ask your local schools to teach it.