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Disability and workplace adjustments 2023
Employees with disability and workplace adjustments.
Key facts
We have estimated the number of employees with disability. To do this, we removed the ‘prefer not to say’ answers from the raw data.
We estimate:
6.1% of overall public sector workforce employees identify as a person with disability
8.5% of Victorian Public Service employees identify as a person with disability.
The workplace adjustment numbers are based on the number of people who said ‘yes’ to the People matter survey question ‘Are you a person with disability?’:
29.4% of the overall public sector workforce requested a workplace adjustment.
31.9% of Victorian Public Service employees requested a workplace adjustment.
The most common type of workplace adjustments requested were:
flexible working arrangements
physical modifications
improvements to the workplace.
Employees with disability
The Victorian Government has a plan to increase the number of people with disability in the public sector called Getting to work.
Getting to work is Victoria’s long-term employment plan for people with disability in the public sector.
The plan supports a target of 6% representation of people with disability in the Victorian Public Service by 2020 and 12% by 2025.
Workplace adjustments
Workplace adjustments allow employees to work safely and effectively.
They can include adjustments:
to working hours
regular breaks
non-standard equipment (e.g. standing desk, screen reader, vertical mouse, access to an Auslan interpreter, accessible lift, lighting, or ramps).
