We have estimated the number of employees with disability. To do this, we removed the ‘prefer not to say’ answers from the raw data.
We estimate:
The workplace adjustment numbers are based on the number of people who said ‘yes’ to the People matter survey question ‘Are you a person with disability?’:
The most common type of workplace adjustments requested were:
The Victorian Government has a plan to increase the number of people with disability in the public sector called Getting to work.
Getting to work is Victoria’s long-term employment plan for people with disability in the public sector.
The plan supports a target of 6% representation of people with disability in the Victorian Public Service by 2020 and 12% by 2025.
Workplace adjustments allow employees to work safely and effectively.
They can include adjustments: