Resources for Employers

Disability Employment 101
Guide for employers preparing to employ people with disabilities. How to put disability and employment research into practice and how to use what other businesses have done to successfully integrate individuals with disabilities into the workforce. (download PDF)

Diversifying Your Workforce Guide
Four-step reference guide for recruiting, hiring and retaining employees with disabilities. (download PDF)

Introduction to Accommodations
Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is a comprehensive web resource for workplace productivity enhancements and reasonable accommodation solutions. Includes searchable database on accommodations by topic or disability, fact sheets and hot topics.
www.jan.wvu.edu/

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Information and technical assistance site on ADA requirements and compliance, including Standards for Accessible Design. Comprehensive site with easy access to many tiers of resources.
www.ada.gov/

Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
Umbrella website from the US Dept. of Labor. Data on employment of people with disabilities; disability employment policy; labor market information; demographic trends; benefits to employers when they recruit, hire, and retain people with disabilities.
www.dol.gov/odep/

NH Department of Vocational Rehabilitation
Links to programs and services for individuals and employers through NH Vocational Rehabilitation.
www.ed.state.nh.us/education/doe/organization/adultlearning/VR/VR.htm

Financial Incentives

Hiring able workers with disabilities makes financial sense.

Work Opportunity Tax Credits (WOTC)
An employer can claim 40% of all wages paid (up to $6,000) for employees who work 400 hours a year, or 25% of all wages paid for employees who work a minimum of 120 hours a year. The tax credit applies to individuals hired through NH Vocational Rehabilitation, SSI recipients who qualify, and other specified target groups.

On-the-Job Training Programs
Funding is available to employers for specialized skills training.

Small Business Tax Credit
Small businesses that earn $1,000,000 or less in gross receipts, or had 30 or fewer full-time employees in the previous year, are eligible to take an annual tax credit for making their businesses accessible to individuals with disabilities.

Architectural/Transportation Tax Deduction
Businesses may take an annual deduction for expenses incurred to remove physical, structural, and transportation barriers for persons with disabilities.

Are you ready to get started?

For further information, please visit:
New Hampshire Vocational Rehabilitation
www.ed.state.nh.us

VR Job Accommodation Network
www.jan.wvu.edu

NH Works
www.NHworks.org