The Valuable 500 launched a guide on self-identification on various topics such as the process of self-identification for persons with disabilities, the psychology of self-identification and why it is important for companies to create cultures of trust, ultimately enabling persons with disabilities to feel comfortable disclosing their disability. This guide also highlights other important topics like reasonable adjustments, training, and Employee Resource Groups, among many others.

The Valuable 500 launched a guide on self-identification on various topics such as the process of self-identification for persons with disabilities, the psychology of self-identification and why it is important for companies to create cultures of trust, ultimately enabling persons with disabilities to feel comfortable disclosing their disability. This guide also highlights other important topics like reasonable adjustments, training, and Employee Resource Groups, among many others.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.