Increasing Federal Employment of Individuals With Disabilities
Headline: Federal Agencies Directed to Increase Hiring of People with Disabilities
What it does: Agencies must create and implement plans to increase recruitment, hiring, retention, and return-to-work for people with disabilities, including setting numerical goals and training staff.
- Sets numerical hiring goals for people with disabilities across federal agencies.
- Requires mandatory training and new reporting for human resources staff and hiring managers.
- Increases access to accommodations, accessible technology, and return-to-work supports.
Summary
This order directs federal agencies to increase employment of people with disabilities and to make the Government a model employer. The Office of Personnel Management must design hiring strategies and mandatory training for human resources staff and hiring managers, and each agency must develop an agency-specific plan with numerical hiring goals, sub-goals for targeted disabilities, and a senior official accountable for those efforts. The order also requires steps to keep and return injured workers to work, provide accommodations and accessible technology, and to report progress publicly.
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