< Back to Previous Page EEOC Issues Report on Federal Employment of Individuals with Targeted Disabilities New Report Provides Sobering Statistics and Roadmap for Agencies to Improve Hiring and Advancement WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a comprehensive report addressing strategies to reverse the declining participation rate of federal employees with targeted disabilities. The full text of the report, Improving the Participation Rate of People with Targeted Disabilities in the Federal Work Force, is available on the EEOC’s web site at www.eeoc.gov/federal/report/pwtd.html. Despite initiatives from numerous administrations, the percentage of federal employees with targeted disabilities has declined each year since reaching a peak of 1.24% in fiscal years (FYs) 1993 and 1994. In FY 2006, the participation rate of people with targeted disabilities declined to 0.94% of the federal government’s total work force, the lowest participation rate in more than 20 years. Targeted disabilities include deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorders, mental retardation, mental illness, and distortion of the limb and/or spine. The EEOC report reiterates the call for the federal government to be the nation’s model employer, providing equal opportunity to all Americans, including those with disabilities. The report incorporates the best practices and innovative measures taken by agencies that have embraced the issue. The report also addresses agency policies and practices that may serve as barriers for individuals with disabilities. “We undertook this review to examine impediments in the federal sector to the hiring and advancement of people with targeted disabilities, as well as to showcase agency best practices that are making a real difference,” said Carlton Hadden, Director of the EEOC’s Office of Federal Operations (OFO), which prepared the report. “Our goal is to ensure that the federal government is the employer of first choice for individuals with disabilities.” For the rest of this article please visit www.eeoc.gov.

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