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Canadian Businesses Slow to Hire People with Disabilities: BMO
Despite evidence that people with disabilities are more educated, more engaged, more productive and more loyal to their employers than the general workforce, small business owners continue to ignore this talented cohort in their hiring plans. In 2013, only three in ten small business owners indicated they had hired someone with a disability – essentially …
Posted in Employer's Perspective
Rethinking DisAbility in the Private Sector
The challenge We all have abilities, but some are more apparent than others. From what we have seen in companies that hire people with disabilities—and from our own experiences as friends or family members of someone with a disability—we know that they can contribute greatly to business and to society. Yet despite an aging population …
Posted in Working with Disabilities