The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a Retention of Disabled Employee Report with recommendations for federal agencies to improve retention of disabled employees in federal public sector jobs.
The Report is based on 3 years of data & recommends that Fed Agencies should have:
- Disability accommodation procedures that comply with federal law;
- Compliance procedures for processing personal assistance services requests; &
- Systems for processing such requests & publicizing them to employees & applicants on their website.
Importantly, the Report highlights the need for reasonable accommodations to not be denied for costs & if denied, the employee should be notified of the reason for the denial & their rights.
In contrast, the Report found that Fed Agencies that focused on personal assistance services and reasonable accommodations had better employee retention.
