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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

  • Accessible communication formats

    Easy read, sign language, braille: How do you best communicate with people with disabilities?

  • ACC Support for employers

    Resources and support available for employers getting an employee back to work after an injury.

  • 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.

  • Subsidies to support hiring

    To motivate and support organisations to proactively employ our disability community, Work and Income offer subsidies and grants to businesses.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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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