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Paul Brown, chief executive of disability employment organisation Jigsaw, says in the tight labour market, it\u2019s time for a \u201cseismic shift in how employers engage with the disability workforce\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Jigsaw research comes as\u00a0big firms including Westpac and Allianz urge employers facing staff shortages to recruit applicants with a disability<\/a>.
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Half of Australian managers and HR executives say they have never hired or worked with a person with a disability, despite 2.1 million Australians with disability being of working age. Paul Brown, chief executive of disability employment organisation Jigsaw, says in the tight labour market, it\u2019s time for a \u201cseismic shift in how employers engage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

Half of Australian managers and HR executives say they have never hired or worked with a person with a disability, despite 2.1 million Australians with disability being of working age.<\/p>

Paul Brown, chief executive of disability employment organisation Jigsaw, says in the tight labour market, it\u2019s time for a \u201cseismic shift in how employers engage with the disability workforce\u201d.<\/p>

The Jigsaw research comes as\u00a0big firms including Westpac and Allianz urge employers facing staff shortages to recruit applicants with a disability<\/a>.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-jigsaw"],"yoast_head":"\nAFR Work and Careers Newsletter: Disability employment by the numbers - Fighting Chance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fightingchance.org.au\/2022\/07\/18\/afr-work-and-careers-newsletter-disability-employment-by-the-numbers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AFR Work and Careers Newsletter: Disability employment by the numbers - Fighting Chance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NAVIGATIONAbout Us Get Involved Financials Press Work With Us SubscribeCONTACTBuilding A Skyline Place Frenchs Forest NSW 2086 (02) 9113 5933 hello@\ufb01ghtingchance.org.au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/fightingchance.org.au\/2022\/07\/18\/afr-work-and-careers-newsletter-disability-employment-by-the-numbers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fighting Chance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-18T00:47:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-18T05:58:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/fightingchance.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/FC-blog-tiles-1920-x-1080-px-NEW.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"marketingfc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"marketingfc\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fightingchance.org.au\/2022\/07\/18\/afr-work-and-careers-newsletter-disability-employment-by-the-numbers\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fightingchance.org.au\/2022\/07\/18\/afr-work-and-careers-newsletter-disability-employment-by-the-numbers\/\",\"name\":\"AFR Work and Careers Newsletter: Disability employment by the numbers - 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