by Hayley Dean | Feb 17, 2025 | Articles, D&I Planning, Disability & Accessibility, Tackle disability discrimination, Working life
In conversations about workplace inclusion and recruitment, one phrase continues to undermine progress: diversity hire. While often used casually, this term carries harmful implications that can erode the very foundations of people with physical disabilities finding...
by Hayley Dean | Feb 3, 2025 | Articles, D&I Planning, Disability & Accessibility, New to D&I?, Tackle disability discrimination
Thanks to a wonderful initiative by Physical Disability Australia, we are celebrating “Physical Disability Awareness Day” today, Monday 3 February 2025, It’s a topic that is close to our hearts at EmployAbility. This is a day that provides us with...
by Hayley Dean | Nov 19, 2024 | Articles, Building Employer Confidence, Employment support, Help
Perhaps not a topic you would immediately consider to be employment related by have you ever considered just how important access to bathrooms is for your co-workers and employees with disabilities? ? Well, today (Nov 19, 2024) is World Toilet Day, a global day...
by Hayley Dean | Nov 18, 2024 | Articles, Building Employer Confidence, Help
Following on from our Disability Language Guide posted last month, we’d like to continue our education on using the right Disability Language in your organisation. In the workplace, we often use language different to that outside the office. For example, when it comes...
by Hayley Dean | Oct 28, 2024 | Articles, Team EmployAbility
If you have contacted Employability sometime in the last 2 years, it is likely that you would have come across the very lovely, Mr Forrest Campbell. Forrest is our much-loved [British Columbian] Canadian native team member, who fell madly in love with and...
by Hayley Dean | Sep 27, 2024 | Articles, Building Employer Confidence, Help
Last month we shared a wonderful video from PWDA on Disability Language to help with those tearoom conversations. Why? Because just as it is in the school yard, on the bus or on the street, in a corporate setting, language plays a crucial role in fostering an...
