In your role as an employment service provider you may come across a range of employer concerns to hiring people with disability. While these concerns can be acknowledged as genuine, they are often based on inaccurate assumptions or a lack of suitable knowledge or experience of employing people with disability. Dispelling some of the myths will provide you with an excellent window of opportunity to correct misinformation and positively market job seekers with disability to employers.
The following pages contain information on the major categories of employer concerns and the arguments that can be used to counteract them in order to open up job opportunities for job seekers with disability:
Employer experiences
When discussing concerns with employers, it may be helpful to promote the business benefits to employers and to provide real examples of the benefits from the viewpoint of other employers.
The clip available at the following link provides some employer experiences and outlines some of the benefits to business when employing people with disability: