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Webinar: What's in a number? Disability data for business change
Charter Principles:
6 - Confidentiality
As companies change their culture on disability inclusion, how can they use data on employees with disabilities to understand progress and guide inclusion strategies? Gathering information on disability is a sensitive and difficult subject, and asking employees to share their disability status needs to be done carefully. The webinar explored how it can be done well and how it contributes to more inclusive environments for all. This webinar brought together a range of experts to explore common challenges and good practices on how businesses can provide spaces for employees to share their disability status.
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Guide for business on the rights of persons with disabilities - How business can respect and support the rights of persons with disabilities and benefit from inclusion
Charter Principles:
1 - Respect and promotion of rights
10 - Knowledge Sharing
2 - Non-discrimination
3 - Equality of treatment and opportunities
4 - Accessibility
5 - Job retention
6 - Confidentiality
7 - Attention to all types of disabilities
8 - Collaboration
9 - Evaluation
Developed jointly by the UN Global Compact and the ILO, the "Guide for business on the rights of persons with disabilities - How business can respect and support the rights of persons with disabilities and benefit from inclusion" suggests concrete actions and measures companies can take to implement good practices that are inclusive of persons with disabilities in the workplace, marketplace and in the community - in alignment with relevant UN conventions and frameworks.
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How can business promote diversity and inclusion through workplace adjustments?
Charter Principles:
2 - Non-discrimination
3 - Equality of treatment and opportunities
5 - Job retention
6 - Confidentiality
Mark Bell, Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, explains how reasonable adjustments at the workplace enable employees to bring their full professional potential to work and thereby promote diversity and inclusion as well as contribute to business success.
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Promoting diversity and inclusion through workplace adjustments: A practical guide
Charter Principles:
2 - Non-discrimination
3 - Equality of treatment and opportunities
5 - Job retention
6 - Confidentiality
Reasonable adjustments at the workplace, often times also referred to as reasonable accommodations, may include adaptations to the job, including modification of machinery and equipment and/or of an employee’s job content, working time and work organization. Reasonable adjustments aim to provide equal opportunities for employees at the workplace, so their skills and talents can be used to full capacity. By recognizing and accommodating individual needs, companies create work environments that truly welcome the diversity of their staff and thereby contribute to greater business success. This ILO guide specifically supports employers in how to provide reasonable accommodation to workers with disabilities, those living with or affected by HIV or AIDS, pregnant workers and workers with family, as well as those who hold a particular religion or belief.
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Business as unusual: Making workplaces inclusive of people with disabilities
Charter Principles:
1 - Respect and promotion of rights
10 - Knowledge Sharing
2 - Non-discrimination
3 - Equality of treatment and opportunities
4 - Accessibility
5 - Job retention
6 - Confidentiality
7 - Attention to all types of disabilities
8 - Collaboration
9 - Evaluation
The inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace is no longer absent from the business agenda. Nonetheless, managers still struggle in implementing inclusion strategies effectively. Based on examples from 15 multinational companies, employers’ organizations and business networks, this publication presents key factors leading to the successful inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace. Divided into two main sections – the why and the how, it provides solutions and ideas on how to improve and expand existing practices, as well as guidance to those who wish to get started and take active part in transforming what it is still perceived as unusual into a natural component of the work environment.
The inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace is no longer absent from the business agenda. Nonetheless, managers still struggle in implementing inclusion strategies effectively. Based on examples from 15 multinational companies, employers’ organizations and business networks, this publication presents key factors leading to the successful inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace. Divided into two main sections – the why and the how, it provides solutions and ideas on how to improve and expand existing practices, as well as guidance to those who wish to get started and take active part in transforming what it is still perceived as unusual into a natural component of the work environment.
