Employees With Disabilities: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You and Them
New regulations aimed at increasing the number of people with disabilities in the workforce will have a major impact on federal contractors.
With just over one-quarter (26.3 percent) of working-age (16-64) people with disabilities participating in the workforce versus 71.9 percent of working-age people without disabilities, revisions to the regulations for Section 503 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act intended to reduce the disparity went into effect last March.
