EmployABILITY: A strategy to increase the employment opportunities for people with a disability in the NSW public sector (2010-2013) sets out the NSW Government’s strategic intent to increase the employment opportunities for people with a disability in the NSW public sector.

EmployABILITY provides a clear direction for NSW public sector agencies, managers and employees to focus on a person’s ability - not their disability - and to explore opportunities to build a workforce that truly reflects and values the diversity of our society. This is a targeted, sector-wide strategy for employing, developing and retaining employees with a disability.

EmployABILITY sets an incremental target for the sector to increase the representation level to 1.5 per cent by 2013. This will be achieved by stabilising the declining trend in 2010-11 and increasing disability employment incrementally in each subsequent year to 2013. Currently, 1.1 per cent of NSW public servants have a disability requiring an adjustment in the workplace.

The EmployABILITY strategycan be accessed at http://www.psc.nsw.gov.au/Sector-Support/EquityandDiversity.

Brendan O’Reilly
Director General