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WHAT CAN WE DO FOR YOU?

Mountain Employment Training specializes in connecting businesses with excellent, skilled candidates who are ready and eager to work. We also continue to support job seekers after they obtain employment to ensure a smooth transition to work. We strive to spread knowledge about hiring individuals with disabilities to create an effective and efficient workforce in every industry.

Why should I hire someone with a disability?

Hiring a person with a disability is a smart investment for any employer. People with disabilities often have unique talents and skills that can be an asset to any workplace. Not only does it provide an opportunity for a person with a disability to gain meaningful employment, but it also helps to create a more diverse and inclusive work environment. Hiring a person with a disability is a win-win scenario: it's good for the individual and the company.

"You may not have the very best person in the job if you didn't recruit any disabled job candidates."

 Employing, Serving All Equitably: The Nordstrom Way

Benefits of Hiring People with Disabilities

1 / Expand your consumer market.

Hiring people with disabilities can be an effective way to expand a company's consumer market. People living with disabilities make up one of the largest consumer market segments in the United States, and they have a collective spending power estimated at $490 billion. By hiring people with disabilities, companies can gain access to a larger customer base and demonstrate their commitment to diversity and inclusion.

2 / Increase your profit margin.

Businesses that actively seek to employ people with disabilities on average have revenues that are 28% higher, net income is two times more, and profit margins are higher by 30%.

3 / Reduce workplace accidents.

Research has shown that workers with disabilities had a significantly higher performance in the area of safety than their counterparts without disabilities. This is likely due to the fact that employees with disabilities are more aware and conscientious of safety in the workplace. We provide training and resources to ensure that all of our employees are equipped with the knowledge and tools to stay safe in the workplace.

TAX INCENTIVES

Disabled Access Credit

The Disabled Access Credit provides a non-refundable credit for small businesses that incur expenditures for the purpose of providing access to persons with disabilities. An eligible small business is one that earned $1 million or less or had no more than 30 full-time employees in the previous year; they may take the credit each and every year they incur access expenditures.

Barrier Removal Tax Deduction

This encourages businesses of any size to remove architectural and transportation barriers to the mobility of persons with disabilities and the elderly. Businesses may claim a deduction of up to $15,000 a year for qualified expenses for items that normally must be capitalized.

Work Opportunity Tax Credit

This credit provides employers incentives to hire qualified individuals from these target groups.  The maximum tax credit ranges from $1,200 to $9,600, depending on the employee hired and the length of employment. The credit is available to employers for hiring individuals from certain target groups who have consistently faced significant barriers to employment. This includes people with disabilities 

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Disability and work: Let’s stop wasting talent | Hannah Barham-Brown | TEDxExeter
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Disability and work: Let’s stop wasting talent | Hannah Barham-Brown | TEDxExeter

Disability is still a barrier to employment for millions of people – but it doesn’t have to be this way. Drawing on her own experience in the medical profession, Hannah Barham-Brown argues that people with disabilities are an asset more employers need to harness. Hannah Barham-Brown is a doctor, disability advocate and member of the British Medical Association Council. In 2018, she was named one of the UK’s 100 most influential disabled people on the Shaw Trust’s Disability Power 100 List for her work in medicine, politics and the media. __ At TEDxExeter 2019 our theme was The Art of the Possible. We’re living in an age of polarity where many communities are feeling more and more divided, against a backdrop of increasingly populist politics which risk dividing us even further. Our talks offer an opportunity to pause and consider the future we want to create, the possibilities that may be obscured in the busyness of our everyday lives, and how we might get there. Find out more about TEDxExeter at https://www.tedxexeter.com TEDxExeter CURATOR: Claire Kennedy - @clairekennedy__ PRODUCTION: First Sight Media - @firstsightmedia Hannah is a GP trainee, disability advocate and member of the British Medical Association Council. In 2018, she was named one of the UK's 100 most influential disabled people on the Shaw Trust's Disability Power 100 List for her work in medicine, politics and the media. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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