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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED233184 AUTHOR:
TITLE: A Study of Accommodations Provided to Handicapped
Employees by Federal Contractors. Final Report. Volume I:
Study Findings.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1982
NOTE: 220 p.; For a related document, see CE 036 673.
ABSTRACT: A study examined the accommodations provided to
handicapped employees by federal contractors. During the 20
month project, researchers surveyed 2,000 federal
contractors, conducted telephone interviews with 85 firms,
surveyed disabled workers, and conducted intensive case
studies of 10 firms identified from their survey or
telephone responses as having exemplary accommodation
practices. Based on these data, the researchers concluded
that for firms that have made efforts to hire handicapped
individuals, accommodation does not involve much in the way
of actual costs. In 51 percent of the cases reported,
accommodation cost nothing and in 30 percent of the
remaining cases it cost less than $500, with the most
expensive and extensive accommodations provided largely to
blind persons and individuals in wheelchairs. Accommodation
efforts are generally perceived as successful in allowing
workers to be effective on the job. While variations exist
in who receives accommodation, the basic pattern appears to
be that once individuals are hired, they are likely to be
accommodated, regardless of occupation or seniority.
Included among the recommendations emerging from the project
were calls for tax credits for expensive accommodations, for
adding a line item in federal contracts under a standard
formula for accommodations for disabled workers used on
contracts, and for technical assistance and, possibly, cost
sharing in accommodation. (MN)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Case-Studies; Employer
Attitudes; Employer-Employee-Relationship; Equal
Opportunities-Jobs; National-Surveys
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Accessibility-for-Disabled; *Disabilities
; *Employment-Practices; *Work-Environment
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