Creating inclusive workplaces
Are you an employer, a manager or person involved in employing disabled people? Discover resources and tools to support your disability employement journey.
If increasing diversity of thought and representing the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand is part of your organisational planning - this is the place for you.
There are so many advantages to making your workplace more accessible, whether that's increased profitability and for improving the environment for existing staff.
The Ministry of Social Development put together a toolkit with a 5-step plan for leadership teams on how to become an inclusive and welcoming environment for disabled people.
Download the Lead Toolkit from the MSD website
There are plenty of resources available to support employers, hiring managers and policy teams to increase inclusion in their workforce.
In this section
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Accessible Websites
What is an accessible website in New Zealand? What do our community look for and how can you prioritise what you work on in the busy and vast world of digital accessibility?
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Disability responsiveness training
Disability Responsiveness training focuses on educating individuals and organisations to better support our disability community as customers and disabled people as fellow employees.
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Disability recruitment for employers
Workbridge makes employing inclusively simple by providing a range of services tailored to make hiring people with disabilities easier for employers.
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Accessible communication formats
Easy read, sign language, braille: How do you best communicate with people with disabilities?
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Subsidies to support hiring
To motivate and support organisations to proactively employ our disability community, Work and Income offer subsidies and grants to businesses.
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ACC Support for employers
Resources and support available for employers getting an employee back to work after an injury.
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Get your disability parking right
To make sure everyone can easily access public spaces, businesses with car parks must provide mobility parking spaces for our disabled community.
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Growing a neurodiverse team?
You can build a neuroinclusive environment to allow your team to deliver their best. Work through our neurodiversity inclusion checklist created with Autism New Zealand