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Employers Reveal Disability Accommodations Costs Are Similar To Other Accommodations
By Dave Reynolds, Inclusion Daily Express
January 23, 2009

WASHINGTON, DC--A massive nationwide report on employers attitudes about workers with disabilities released this week shows that, on the whole, employers are finding that workplace accommodations for such workers cost about the same as for workers without disabilities.

The report, "Survey of Employer Perspectives on the Employment of People with Disabilities", was based on 15-minute telephone interviews with executives from 3,797 companies across the country. It was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy, and was conducted between February and June of 2008.

About 19 percent of all employers surveyed reported that they had employed workers with disabilities, but more than half of large companies -- those that employ 250 or more employees -- reported employing people with disabilities.

Still more workers with disabilities were working for mid-sized businesses -- those employing 15 to 149 workers -- than larger or smaller companies.

Perhaps most encouraging is the finding that those companies that have hired one worker with a disability are much more likely to hire other applicants with disabilities.

One challenge yet to overcome, however, is the fact that workers without disabilities still move up in an organization much more quickly than their counterparts with disabilities.

Entire report:
Survey of Employer Perspectives on the Employment of People with Disabilities
http://www.dol.gov/odep/documents/survey_report_jan_09.doc

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