Employers' Forum on Disability is the world's leading employers' organisation focused on disability as it affects business. Our mission is to enable companies to become disability confident by making it easier to recruit and retain disabled employees and to serve disabled customers.
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We have now launched the Accessible Technology Charter. This is a charter for businesses, designed to bring about a transformation in the global ICT market so that it liberates the potential of technology enabling everyone to contribute to the global economy.
So far, 17 businesses and government departments - Accenture, Alexander Mann, Barclays, BSkyB, BT, BUPA, Cisco, DWP, Ernst and Young, Fujitsu, GSK, HMRC, Lloyds Banking Group, Microlink. Microsoft UK, Oracle and Sainsbury's - have demonstrated their commitment by signing the charter.
We are encouraging every corporate user of technology to sign this charter and invest in their organisation's future workforce and profitability.
22 February 2012, 10:00am - 1:00pm, National
Audit Office, Victoria, London
Designed and run by AbilityNet, this workshop gives you the opportunity to learn about practical adjustments that are free, or cost less than £100.
de Poel, Diversity Jobs, Microlink, Remploy, Shaw Trust, RBLI, Cisco, NHS Employers, Leonard Cheshire, Eversheds, Deloitte, Royal Liverpool & Boradgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Ernst & Young, Reed, Mitie, Alexander Mann Solutions, Affinity Sutton Group, Equal Approach, GR Law and Mayer Brown have all committed to the protocol which requires all recruitment agencies they work with to identify and remove the common barriers faced by disabled candidates.
To sign up and demonstrate your commitment to a barrier-free recruitment process for disabled candidates download the EFD Recruitment Protocol here.
Senior business leaders have joined forces in a unique taskforce managed by Employers' Forum on Disability. The Business Taskforce on Accessible Technology is calling for technology to deliver its promise of making it easier to employ, and do business with, disabled people.
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"As we look to make it easier to work in our organisations and for customers with disabilities to be served by us, EFD can help. Barclays has supported EFD since the beginning, and I would be delighted if you would consider joining us."
John Varley, President, Employers' Forum on Disability
(Former Barclays plc CEO)
