Performance Goal ODEP 3.1: Workers with Disabilities

Reduce barriers to fair and diverse workplaces for workers with disabilities.

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Remove Barriers to Employment for People with Disabilities -- ODEP’s success in achieving its strategic vision of reducing barriers to employment and promoting employment opportunities for people with disabilities requires the active involvement of federal agencies, state and local governments, private and public sector employers, labor unions, national disability community advocates, and other stakeholders to implement its policy and effective practice recommendations. ODEP will lead collaborative efforts with these key stakeholders to develop innovative policy and policy strategies. ODEP is responsible for the development and dissemination of policy and effective practices that address the barriers to employment faced by individuals with disabilities. To remove barriers that limit individuals with disabilities from fully participating in the workforce, ODEP will focus on the adoption and implementation of its policies and strategies by its public- and private-sector partners to impact the following areas: 1. Leverage incentives and reduce disincentives to securing good jobs; 2. Increase federal workforce participation and make the government a model employer; 3. Ensure the availability of and access to universally usable workplace technology and transportation; 4. Increase and improve access to Workforce Investment Act (WIA) programs; 5. Reduce discrimination, ensure civil rights protections, and promote affirmative hiring programs and authorities; 6. Improve return-to-work outcomes; 7. Increase integrated employment at minimum wage or above; 8. Transition returning wounded and injured service members to good jobs; and 9. Improve employment outcomes for diverse populations, including women, minorities, and transition-age youth with disabilities. ODEP will develop and foster the adoption and implementation of policies and policy strategies that support: universal access to workforce development systems; employmentrelated supports needed by all workers and job seekers; and inclusive recruitment, hiring, advancement, and retention of people with disabilities in public- and private-sector jobs by collaborating with its federal, state, and private-sector partners. Through the efforts of OFCCP and ODEP and complemented by the work of WB – which will ensure that workplaces for young women, women of color, homeless women veterans, and women with disabilities are free from discrimination and harassment – the Department will remove barriers to fair and diverse workplaces and will monitor its progress through the following performance measures.

Stakeholder(s):

• Workers with Disabilities

Indicator(s):

Indicator:1

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