EEOC: Workforce is stronger when individuals ask for what they need to be productive and feel supported at work. Image: Tanoy1412/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe EEOC has released a training video and an accompanying guide for federal employees, leaders, employee resource groups and others on promoting a “mental health-friendly federal workplace.”
The agency said the video and guide reinforce the “federal sector commitment to fostering accessible workplaces, and highlights, among other things, how the federal workforce is strengthened and enhanced when workers with mental health disabilities—or any disability—ask for what they need to be productive and feel supported at work.”
As part of National Disability Employment Awareness Month in October, the EEOC also cited its recent report on the EEO status of workers with disabilities in the federal workforce, which among other things found that persons with disabilities are less likely than those without disabilities to be in federal leadership positions; it recommended that agencies work to ensure retention of leaders with disabilities, as well as recruit such individuals as new hires into leadership positions.
The EEOC also noted recent actions including issuing a report on protections under the Rehabilitation Act and separate guidance on visual disabilities and hearing disabilities, and on long COVID under that law and under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Those laws pertain to the federal workforce as well as to larger private sector employers.
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