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Making the case for hiring people with disabilities

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Our What’s Working sessions feature current programs and supports available to help people to be successful in their employment journey.

In this session, led by hirewesternu’s Accessibility Team, how hiring persons with disabilities can help create an inclusive workplace that benefits everyone. There are hundreds of thousands of working-aged Canadians with disabilities who are ready and eager to work. They have the skills, enthusiasm and potential to bring great value to any organization.

Learn more about hirewesternu: http://hirewesternu.ca/edid/ability/index.html

People with disabilities represent untapped potential!

Among those aged 25 to 64 years, persons with disabilities were less likely to be employed (59%) than those without disabilities (80%).

You can help change the narrative through inclusive recruitment by improving the accessibility of your recruitment processes.

More than half of Ontario businesses report labour shortage as a barrier to growth.

Get more resources at: http://hirewesternu.ca/edid/ability/ability_together.html

 

About Wednesdays at One: ESC's Recovery Conversations:

All ESC employment, education and training staff are invited for networking, information, tools, and conversations to enhance how we serve and support others, particularly those impacted by the pandemic. Leave with practical ways to apply these PD learnings and insights in your daily roles, right away.

ESC Recovery Conversations are a partnership between Employment Sector Council and Elgin Middlesex Oxford Workforce Planning & Development Board, and are supported by The City of London.

For more information: ESC Workshops

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Ashley Conyngham

Ashley Conyngham

Director, Marketing and Communications

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