CLOSED: This survey has concluded.
1. Priority Area: Employment
- Many Canadians with disabilities are unemployed or underemployed.
- There are 645,000 Canadians with disabilities who have the potential to work in an inclusive labour market and are not currently working. [1]
- Statistics Canada’s 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability found that 15.6 per cent of the Canadian workforce (aged 25 to 64) is made of up by persons with a disability.[2]
- However, in the 2017 to 2018 fiscal year:
- only 5.3 per cent of public servants self-identified as a person with a disability.
- 2.9% identified as a person with a disability when applying for a position
| Questions for consideration: What might be some barriers at the CER to employing persons with disabilities? Why do so few people with disabilities work at the CER? Why do so few people with disabilities work at the CER? What about barriers specific to Recruiting, Retaining, and Promoting persons with disabilities? |
[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/campaigns/hiring-persons-disabilities.html
[2] https://www.canada.ca/en/government/publicservice/wellness-inclusion-diversity-public-service/diversity-inclusion-public-service/accessibility-public-service/accessibility-strategy-public-service-toc/accessibility-strategy-public-service-employment.html