Nigeria: 'Disabled Employees Are Resourceful'

22 March 2014

Every employer wants to employ the best hands to achieve organizational goals, but not all of them know how to source for skillful staff in our today skill deficient work force.There are enormous benefits that can accrue, directly or indirectly to an organization by employing people with disability.

Disabled people are twice as likely to be unemployed as non-disabled people, and it not because they are all lazy benefit scroungers, but because there are myths and misconceptions preventing the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workforce. For example, the cost of employing a person with a disability; in terms of possible workplace adjustments, the impact on their compensation and sick leave, the belief that people with disability will take up too much time to manage, the fear of other people in the workplace doing or saying the wrong thing, etc are some of these misconceptions."The difference people find when they send in a 'straight', CV compared to when they declare a disability is quite significant.

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