Accessibility - Commitment 15
The Commitment:
Working with department managers, create a list of employees with identified disabilities and report those numbers in annual reports and/or at annual meetings of senior leadership.
Why This Commitment?
Commitments 11 & 15 are designed to help your organization understand its strengths and weaknesses when it comes to inclusive recruitment and hiring.
This commitment supports that understanding by drawing the attention of senior leadership to the representation of people with disabilities in your organization. You can share your findings internally however you share other operational numbers that matter: at a meeting, in an annual report, by email — whatever works best for your organization.
How To Complete This Commitment (Evaluation Plan)
In October 2022, we’ll ask you to describe how you collected and shared this information.
Resources
1) Ask Team Leaders or Survey Managers:
We recommend using this method if your organization has large teams where the information collected will not identify any individual team members. Suggested question:
“Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important to [business name]. We are tracking our diversity metrics so we can identify areas we need to improve. Do any of your current team members have a self-identified disability? If yes, how many?”
2) Ask in an Employee Survey
We recommend using this method if a team leader survey would not protect the privacy of individual employees. As with any employee survey, be sure to tell employees why their information is being collected, how it will be used and stored, and how their privacy will be protected. Learn more about collecting and protecting personal information in Alberta here. Suggested question:
“Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important to [business name]. We are tracking our diversity metrics so we can identify areas we need to improve. Do you identify as a person with a disability?”
For related resources, please see Commitment 11: Inclusive Hiring Checklist.