Common goal:
Where we aim.
A fundamental shift in the employment of people with disability in our workplaces.
The current status of disability employment in Australia results in poorer outcomes for everyone.
The opportunity for engagement of people with disability in our workplaces is clear – for society, businesses, governments and people with disability.
For society
923,000 potential workers contributing towards building our communities and creating a stronger, more vibrant and more mature Australia, economically and socially.
For businesses
923,000 potential workers increasing businesses productivity, with workers earning incomes that are spent in businesses, growing their revenues.
For governments
923,000 potential workers reducing welfare dependency and government expenditure on employment support programs – earning incomes and contributing income and GST taxes instead.
For people with disability
923,000 potential workers, with their families and carers, having equal access to social and economic prosperity.
DEInvestments has set a transformational goal that reflects a fundamental shift in the engagement and employment of people with disability in our workplaces.
New jobs for 100,000 and better jobs for 83,000 underemployed over the next 10 years.
And these jobs are good jobs, meaning wages, conditions and choice.
Wages
That people with disability receive wages and wage reviews in the same way as workers without disability.
Conditions
That people with disability have the same working environment and working conditions that people without disability have.
Choice
That people with disability have the same choice of where to work as people without disability have.