How to Increase Salaries for Disabled Workers
Treat your workers with disabilities as if they were not workers with disabilities. That is, provide them the same training you would any other worker, provide accommodations as needed and salary increases should naturally follow. You must have the mindset that workers with disabilities are valuable and contribute just as much as other workers do. There is no reason for them to be making less than the salary scale for a certain position if they have the qualifications.
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Talk with the workers with disabilities and their supervisors, and review the workers' job descriptions. Identify any job aspects the workers are not performing because they do not have specific training or because the company or the workers perceive them as not capable of doing it.
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Set up training and/or get accommodations so the workers can fulfill these job aspects. Tie completion to a salary raise; you have no need to mention the disability because additional training is a good reason for a salary increase regardless. For example, in the employee file, you could write something like: Joe took a semester-long community college class on customer service and so got a $1-per-hour increase.
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Assign the workers with disabilities more responsibilities. Provide training and accommodations as needed. Give the workers the salary raise because of their increased duties.
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Specialize the workers. Train them to do tasks many of the other employees can't. This increases the value of these workers with disabilities, and because they perform specialized work, you can give them a salary increase.
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Consult with the workers about switching positions, if necessary. Maybe the positions they are in now are dead ends, or they feel other positions fit better with their disabilities. Give salary raises commensurate with the new positions.
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