Posts Tagged ‘ employment ’

Release of the National Mental Health and Disability Employment Strategy

On 14 September 2009, the Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services, the Hon Bill Shorten MP, and the Minister for Employment Participation, Senator the Hon Mark Arbib, jointly released the National Mental Health and Disability Employment Strategy, a part of the government’s Social Inclusion Agenda. The Social Inclusion Agenda aims to address the barriers [...]



Becoming a Disability Confident Business

An Australian website has just been launched to provide businesses with "information, tips and advice on becoming a disability confident business for both employees and customers". The site, disability confidence, compliments a new publication "Opportunity – the business case for including people with disability as customers and employees". Both site and publication [...]