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Network of employers
Advance the equitable inclusion of people with disability in all aspects of business
Not for profit working with over 130 Australian organisations
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Employment system is not working well, but:
“accessible front door” thinking
bi-lateral partnerships
more active sourcing of pipeline talent
naturalising and “owning” workplace adjustments
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Source: http://lmip.gov.au/default.aspx?LMIP/DisabilityEmploymentServicesData/DESOutcomeRatesbyDisabilityType
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% of
National Caseload
Job Placement
Rate (%)
26 Week Outcome Rate (%)
Physical 58 27 21
Psychiatric 35 30 20
Intellectual 10 42 30
Specific Learning 8 47 32
Autism 6 42 30
Neurological 5 30 23
Hearing 3 37 29
Acquired Brain Injury
2 34 23
Vision 2 29 20
Speech 0 41 33
Deafblind 0 34 30
Subject: Employment opportunities Importance: High
To whom it may concern,
My name's Jasmine and I work for a job provider called as a National projects officer.
My role involves marketing both JSA and DES clients and finding them employment Nationwide.
I'm currently trying to place one of our DES legally blind clients Nicole Lehmann, located in Northbridge Victoria, into a customer call centre position.
She has had 12 years experience and is only required to work 8 hours per week.
The company who Nicole works for are entitled to government incentives called wage subsidies.
We can offer the employer $2,000 at her first 13 weeks of employment and again another $2,000 at her first 26 weeks of employment.
If someone could please call me back regarding any job opportunities you might know about, that would be great 02 xxx xxxx
Please find attached Nicoles’ resume.
Kind regards,
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Do you require support or
adjustment during the
recruitment process? If any
please provide further details
We encourage job
seekers/candidates who have
the support of a Disability
Employment Service to provide
relevant contact details here. If
you are successfully appointed,
our managers will be happy to
work with your Disability
Employment Service to ensure a
smooth transition to the job
Woolworths is a diverse organisation with
employees from different cultures and
backgrounds. We represent a slice of
Australia, where 1 in 63 Australians work
for Woolworths. As an employer, we have a
responsibility to know and understand our
workforce. We take this seriously and pride
ourselves on being an Equal Employment
Opportunity (EEO) organisation. This is
about ensuring all employees have equal
access to the opportunities available at
work. The information you provide is
collected for Equal Employment
Opportunities purposes and will be used to
improve our processes in relation to
diversity management and recruitment. If
your application is successful, this
information will be transferred across to our
HR information system.
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Two Australian banks are working hard on disability employment partnerships based on job families
Instead of waiting for people to apply they are going to get them Define the role
Work with provider
Provide the training
Select the best
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PACE
Mentor students with disability to create better understanding from hiring managers about the challenges
Also benefits the student with disability to develop interview, resume and workplace skills
Stepping Into…
Paid Summer or Winter Internships for pen-ultimate year University students
Closes the employment gap for these students in their subsequent graduate applications
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ANZ 35 per year
Created momentum and a culture of asking “what do we need to do differently?”
“People with a disability are part of the community and the workforce should be like that too. ANZ’s target to employ 35 people with a disability each year might not seem like a lot, but you have to start somewhere. It is a learning curve” Hamish McKenzie, ANZ
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Total employed Unemployed
Not in the labour force Total
Restricted in type of job 32% 30% 27% 31%
Restricted in number of hours 18% 18% 19% 18%
Changing jobs or getting a preferred job 26% 23% 20% 24%
Time off work because of disability 10% 14% 16% 12%
Provided special equipment 3% 2% 3% 3%
Modified buildings or fittings 1% 1% 1% 1%
Provided help from someone at work 1% 1% 2% 1%
Provided training or retraining 0% 2% 2% 1%
Allocated different duties 2% 3% 2% 2%
No disability support person provided 2% 5% 7% 4%
Other 5% 1% 2% 4%
100% 100% 100% 100%
Source: Based on ABS Data: Labour force status, by employment restrictions–2012
Workplace adjustment All
Students Mental Health
Flexible working hours 225 120
Supervision/ additional support 115 48
Counselling / psychological support 11 9
No adjustments required 8 4
Workstation accommodation 15 4
Accessible premises 19 1
Adjustments to communication styles 54 1
Job design 12 1
Assistive technology and equipment 40 0
Auslan interpretation / Captioning 3 0
Ergonomic equipment 48 0
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More structured top-down leadership
Employee action groups refocused
Linking customer and employee initiatives
Stronger governance of activities
Evolution in thinking about “disclosure” and “reasonable” adjustments
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Westpac ABLE Network
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Growing and influential
• Now over 500 employees
• Business focus
• Chair doesn’t work within
HR or Diversity, but is
works in IT
• Quarterly support and drive
from Westpac Group COO
• Is an internal resource for
the rest of the organisation
• Won the AHRI Disability
Employment Award
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Raised Text & Braille on Stair Handrails
Large Level ID at Base of Stair
Raised Text Signage
Large Vision Indicators on Glazing
Design Credit: Frost Design. © Copyright Frost
Design 2014
Telstra has produced 6 Disability Action Plans
They have had an independent review every six months since they started
"Now more than ever, our nation needs corporate champions like Telstra to show what can be achieved when people with a disability are given the support they need to make the most of the abilities they possess. I congratulate Telstra for its ongoing leadership." Dr Rhonda Galbally AO
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36% of people suggest it’s a big personal step to associate yourself with the word “disability”
27% resist the label because “it feels so negative” A dilemma:
57% of people who shared information about their disability to obtain an adjustment.
60% of people who wouldn’t do so feared some adverse consequence
Change language “Reasonable” adjustment = Workplace adjustment “Disclosure” = Sharing information
Changing attitudes Employers Employees
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Government Private
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Westpac
FaHCSIA Health & Ageing Human Services Defence Agriculture Foreign Affairs
But missing data for
29% of employees!
Percent who reported immediate and longer-term negative consequences, by how
apparent the disability was.
10.1 11.3
6.9
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19.8
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Not apparent Somewhat apparent Very apparent
Immediatenegativeexperience
Longertermnegativeexperience
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Historically about property compliance
Product and process origination finally getting involved
Understanding communication needs and “the market”
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Two banks and a Telco are re-developing their product sign-off processes
Based on evaluating the capability required to use the product and a cycle to re-design before launch rather than after
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A Melbourne Council is building a ‘Communications Register” when people can opt-in and nominate how they would like their Communication with Council
Text, Mail, Braille, etc
“Available in accessible format on request” OR
“Please log in and tell us which format you require for: Statements [Online,
Paper]
General mailing [Email, Paper, Braille]
Payment codes [SMS only..]”
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Coles recently developed a simple training video which taught the AUSLAN signing for basic store interactions
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Barclays accessible services
We want our products and services to be available to everyone, so have introduced ways to make banking with us easier if you have, or are impacted by, an impairment, disability or health condition
As part of this, we’ve organised nationwide roadshows to demonstrate what services are available to improve access to your finances
http://www.barclays.co.uk/Accessibility/Accessibility/P1242623451150
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Locally
People with Disability (A)
No Disability
(B) Year (A)/(B)
Switzerland 69.60% 84.80% 2011 82%
Austria 67.20% 75.80% 2011 89%
Sweden 62.00% 77.00% 2008 81%
France 53.00% 67.50% 2012 79%
Denmark 51.20% 83.60% 2008 61%
Canada 51.00% 75.00% 2006 68%
UK 48.90% 78.00% 2012 63%
Luxembourg 48.00% 67.00% 2011 72%
Australia 47.75% 78.49% 2012 61%
NZ 45.00% 72.00% 2013 63%
Netherlands 43.00% 72.00% 2009 60%
Norway 43.00% 74.00% 2013 58%
Belgium 42.50% 64.30% 2002 66%
Estonia 34.20% 73.30% 2011 47%
Ireland 31.18% 51.33% 2011 61%
Mexico 27.90% 50.20% 2010 56%
US 27.03% 70.44% 2012 38%
Spain 26.70% 59.80% 2011 45%
Iceland 23.40% 80.10% 2012 29%
Hungary 18.10% 60.80% 2012 30%
Czech republic 17.20% 54.50% 2012 32%
Slovakia 15.90% 62.10% 2012 26%
Poland 14.80% 50.70% 2011 29%
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