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January 08, 2007
Final Report On Best Practices For The Employment of People With
A comprehensive report on the efforts of nine states to employ more people with disabilities in government jobs has been released by the EEOC. The best practices related to recruiting and hiring of people with disabilities for state jobs includes:
- providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities;
- retaining and advancing persons with disabilities within state government; and
- employing people with disabilities more generally in public- and private-sector jobs.
The report highlighted some practices that may inadvertently act as barriers to employment for people with disabilities in the states surveyed, the EEOC said. The report can be viewed on-line at:
http://www.eeoc.gov/initiatives/nfi/final_states_best_practices_report.html
Posted by Nancy at January 8, 2007 11:47 PM