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An exploration of the employment journeys of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour who experience disability.

Six free online courses are available now for employers in British Columbia. These courses focus on developing an accessible and inclusive workplace. For each course, learners will receive a certificate of completion.

This Canadian-based guide from DSRF provides updated recommendations on language to use and to avoid when speaking.

This Guidebook​ shares recommendations to improve the accessibility and usability of online job application platforms, as well as practical steps and good practices to follow when recruiting persons with disabilities​.

For an organization-wide accessibility plan to be impactful, staff at every level must understand and embrace an approach that supports all employees, including those with disabilities.

This checklist will help your Marketing team to keep accessibility in mind throughout your organization’s digital campaigns, adapted from a resource by texthelp.

This Guide will help staff who have been assigned the task of coordinating or acting as project manager to prepare an organization’s first accessibility plan.

A beginner’s guide to test your website for accessibility and some best practices for content creation.

Prioritize these top practices to make your recruitment and hiring practices more disability inclusive.

Open Door Group and Presidents Group collaborated on this tool, created from recent international research on practices that truly increase inclusion and retention of people with disabilities in the workplace.

Tips for employers on how to balance employee privacy while encouraging the disclosure of information that supports employees to be successful.

Understanding any unintended barriers in the recruitment process can help ensure a more diverse talent pool of candidates for job postings.

Naming disability alongside other priority areas in your diversity and inclusion efforts is a key practice at leading inclusive organizations.

When you ask hiring managers to pay attention to diversity in the hiring process, it’s important to give them the tools to follow through.

Ensuring that performance on disability inclusion goals is part of regular performance management discussions will help managers to understand it is a priority.

Help new employees understand that a disability inclusive culture is just part of how you do business and ensure that employees with disabilities see steps taken to make the onboarding process accessible.

Short-Term Disability Insurance provides replacement income for an employee when they are unable to work for a set number of weeks due to hospitalization, an accident, or becoming ill. Providing this support can make an enormous difference in their well-being and capacity to return to work.

Whether employers aim to retain current employees or attract new talent, reviewing the company’s benefits plans and ensuring extended health benefits are compelling and inclusive is a wise approach.

Employees receiving disability assistance from the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction can use an annual earnings exemption (AEE) to keep more of the money they earn from work.

Listen to Greater Vancouver Board of Trade President and CEO, Bridgitte Anderson, and Lisa Beecroft, Presidents Group Co-Chair, Co-Owner of Gabi & Jules, discuss the benefits of embracing inclusive hiring practices.