(PRWEB) February 22, 2012 Chicago, Illinois: Health & Disability Advocates, the parent organization of Think Beyond the Label, a public-private partnership that connects businesses to jobs for people with disabilities across the U.S., strongly supports a proposed Department of Labor rule to require federal contractors and subcontractors to set a goal for hiring qualified people with disabilities to 7 percent of their workforce.
?For far too long, businesses have publicly stated their interest in hiring people with disabilities, but for a variety of reasons they have not acted on that interest,? says Barbara Otto, CEO of Health & Disability Advocates. ?The proposed rule will provide further incentives for businesses to hire,
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