PATH Employer Benefits

Working with You to achieve Your goal!

PATH Employment Services can save you time and money in your hiring process. Our services are offered to all employers, regardless of size. Furthermore, our services are free. We can provide you with qualified, skilled employees.
We appreciate the fact that most employers look for the bottom line. Few are daunted by a disability.

Just the Facts:

Because of the diversity of the disabilities our clients have, all jobs may be filled by a client from PATH.
Employers find persons with disabilities to be very dedicated, loyal, and motivated. Statistically, persons with disabilities have less sick days that the average worker.
HRDC and the Government of Ontario presents extensive resources and information for business and service providers on workplace diversity and creating accessibility for people with disabilities.

We provide follow-up and support to employers for all our placements:

Prescreen all potential referrals.
Provide a list of qualified candidates suited to fit YOUR JOB SPECIFICATIONS.
Provide interview facilities and support.
Assess accessibility in the workplace.
Assess the need for adaptive devices and recommend appropriate funding.
Assess the need for adaptive devices and recommend appropriate funding.
Provide information on special government programs of benefit to employers.
We provide available training subsidies where eligibility exists.

Making the Business Case for Hiring People with Disabilities

Business Challenges

We know that there are significant challenges ahead. Businesses must find ways to meet the challenges of an aging, shrinking labour force.

The Conference Board of Canada 's Performance and Potential 2005–06 report identified the aging of the population as one of the greatest challenges facing Canada.

We believe employers can meet such challenges by hiring people with disabilities. Right now businesses have the opportunity to tap into a growing talent pool.

There are more educated and better prepared workers with disabilities than ever before.

Business Case

The most prevalent employer concerns are:

Finding and keeping qualified employees
Finding employees with the right work ethic
Managing costs and benefits

Addressing these concerns:

Employers' top concern is finding qualified employees.
People who experience a disability have creative problem solving skills, employers recognize that many candidates with disabilities do have the talents, skills, and experiences for which they are recruiting.

Employers are concerned with performance and retention.
When employers learn that workers with disabilities have comparable performance and retention ratings to those of employees without disabilities, they see that hiring, retaining, and promoting people with disabilities positively impacts their bottom line.

Employers say job accommodations are costly.
When employers hear that almost half of the accommodations that are needed actually cost nothing, and those accommodations that do have a cost typically cost only $600, then they see that they can make accommodations easily and cost effectively as well.

Investing in workers with disabilities is indeed a sound investment

We are entering a time where employment is up, the economy is strong and workers are migrating into retirement. This is a 'perfect opportunity' for people with disabilities.

If employers don't do business with the disability market, their competitors will.

Employees must be qualified to do the job that business needs to have done.

The more qualified individuals with disabilities that enter the workforce, the better for our economy. Employers are looking for the talent that will keep them competitive in the global economy.

As with any employee, the best candidates with disabilities will be in high demand. That highly qualified individual could be the next Bill Gates, or the next Nobel Prize winner in medicine, or the next Pulitzer Prize winner.

All employees with disabilities won't make it to the top of the field. But be assured, all will deliver a fair day's work for a fair-day's pay. All will help contribute to the bottom line.

Thank you.