{"id":13777,"date":"2022-05-05T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gallhk.com\/?p=13777"},"modified":"2022-05-18T20:40:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T12:40:05","slug":"disability-discrimination-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallhk.com\/cn\/disability-discrimination-in-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability Discrimination in the Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Disability discrimination is a complex yet crucial area of law which all employers will come across at some point. A stigma exists in Asian cultures around disability which, coupled with a lack of awareness from mainstream corporate culture, means that disability is often seen as \u2018the forgotten cause\u2019 of DEI priorities.<br><br>Join&nbsp;Lo\u00efc Andr\u00e9 from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/ojability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OJ Ability<\/a>&nbsp;(disability focused recruitment firm \u2013 part of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverjames.com\/work-with-oj?source=bing.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Oliver James Group<\/a>), Faride Shroff from disability NGO&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sensationalhk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>SENsational Foundation<\/strong><\/a>, employment lawyer Matthew Durham from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallhk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Gall<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;and Doris Tsui from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eoc.org.hk\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC)<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;to learn more about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Existing barriers faced by people with disabilities (PwDs) in Hong Kong;<\/li><li>Elevating disability inclusion as a DEI cause on corporate agendas;<\/li><li>Guidance on how companies can move from good intentions to actual hiring;<\/li><li>Legal expertise and insight into matters of accessibility, disclosure and discrimination;<\/li><li>Global best practices in disability employment and what companies in Hong Kong can learn from&nbsp;global benchmarks;<\/li><li>The EOC&#8217;s perspective on how businesses can support employees with disabilities.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Date: Monday 23rd May, 2022<br>Time: 4:00pm &#8211; 5:00pm<br>Location: Online (Teams)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Register by emailing:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:gallwebinar@oliverjames.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">gallwebinar@oliverjames.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disability discrimination is a complex yet crucial area of law which all employers will come across at some point. A stigma exists in Asian cultures around disability which, coupled with a lack of awareness from mainstream corporate culture, means that disability is often seen as \u2018the forgotten cause\u2019 of DEI priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[478,500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-cn","category-discrimination-cn"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gallhk.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gallhk.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gallhk.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallhk.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallhk.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallhk.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gallhk.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallhk.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallhk.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}