Press Releases
Health & Disability Advocates Lauds New Labor Dept. Proposal to Boost Hiring of Qualified Workers with Disabilities
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMT
CHICAGO--Health & Disability Advocates, the parent organization of Think Beyond the Label, a public-private partnership that connects businesses to jobs for people with disabilities across the U.S., strongly supports a proposed Department of Labor rule to require federal contractors and subcontractors to set a goal for hiring qualified people with disabilities to 7 percent of their workforce.
“For far too long, businesses have publicly stated their interest in hiring people with disabilities, but for a variety of reasons they have not acted on that interest,” said Barbara Otto, CEO of Health & Disability Advocates. “The proposed rule will provide further incentives for businesses to hire, and with proper guidance and enforcement, will facilitate the increased employment of qualified workers with disabilities.”
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Think Beyond the Label Creates Jobs Portal for People with Disabilities
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:00:00 GMT
CHICAGO—Think Beyond the Label launched an online jobs portal that connects job seekers with disabilities to employers, including those that are actively seeking to hire them. Think Beyond the Label’s new job-search engine gives candidates with disabilities free access to nearly one million job listings from more than 90,000 vetted hiring employers in the private and public sectors.
With a 15% unemployment rate among working-age Americans with disabilities, Think Beyond the Label created the jobs portal to promote disability employment opportunities, help grow the pipeline of qualified job candidates with disabilities, and meet businesses’ hiring needs.
“Think Beyond the Label’s fresh approach and message already attracts thousands of people with disabilities to our website, and our jobs portal gives job ...
Think Beyond the Label Launches Online Tool to Help Businesses Realize the Benefits of Hiring a Person with a Disability
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:29:35 GMT
CHICAGO (Sept. 20, 2011) — Think Beyond the Label, a leading public-private partnership that works to increase employment for people with disabilities, today rolled out Hire Gauge, an online resource that calculates the financial return on investment and other benefits of hiring a person with a disability.
Think Beyond the Label’s Hire Gauge is the only online tool of its kind that depicts the tangible monetary incentives that can accumulate each time a company hires a person with a disability, which, for a typical large business, can reach $31,800 per hire. At the same time, Hire Gauge sums up the wide range of workplace and marketplace benefits that businesses also reap when they recruit, hire and retain a qualified job seeker with a disability, including veterans.
“Hire Gauge demonstrates all the reasons—financial and otherwise—that make ...
National Ad Campaign Promotes Hiring People With Disabilities With Its Smart And Funny Message, "Think Beyond the Label"
Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:45:14 GMT
April 1, 2010, -- Chicago, IL: The organization Health & Disability Advocates (HDA) is spearheading a collaborative of 30 states, which recently launched a national ad campaign promoting the hiring of people with disabilities on February 1, 2010. The $4 million campaign will appear on television, in print, on the Web, and on billboards throughout the year. The goal of the humorous, edgy campaign is to change attitudes about hiring people with disabilities, raising awareness of the need for diversity in the workplace, and countering stereotypes about people with disabilities.
Created by the Chicago-based ad agency Wirestone, “Think Beyond the Label” emphasizes that all workplaces accommodate difference—from the “copy-incapable” office worker, to the “pattern-deficient” dresser, to the man with “volume control syndrome” (i.e., the loud-mouthed employee). The campaign acknowledges that ...