Stakeholder Consultation

Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)

Department of Labor (DOL)

DRAFT Strategic Plan FY 2010-2016

Draft: February 22, 2010

ODEP Overview

ODEP

– Mission: The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) provides national leadership by developing and influencing disability employment-related policies and practices affecting an increase in the employment of people with disabilities.

– Leadership: Kathleen Martinez, Assistant Secretary

– Organization: 52 FTE in the National and Regional Offices Current FY 2010 Resources: $ 39,031,000

ODEP GoalsODEP supports the following Department of Labor Strategic Goals

and Outcome Goals: Strategic Goal 1: Prepare workers for good jobs and ensure fair compensation.

– Increase workers’ incomes and narrowing wage and income inequality.– Assure skills and knowledge that prepare workers to succeed in a knowledge-based economy,

including in high-growth and emerging industry sectors like “green” jobs.– Help workers who are in low-wage jobs or out of the labor market find a path into middle class

jobs.– Help middle-class families remain in the middle class.

Strategic Goal 3: Assure fair and high quality work-life environments. – Break down barriers to fair and diverse workplaces so that every worker’s contribution is

respected. – Ensure worker voice in the workplace.

Strategic Goal 4: Secure health benefits and, for those not working, provide income security.

– Improve health benefits and retirement security for all workers.– Facilitate return to work for workers experiencing workplace injuries or illnesses who are able to

work and sufficient income and medical care for those who are unable to work.

Strategic Goal 5: Foster fair working conditions in the global marketplace.– Assure that global markets are governed by fair market rules that protect vulnerable people,

including women and children, and provide workers a fair share of their productivity and voice in their work lives.

ODEP Results

We are measuring results differently.– ODEP recognizes that determining the impact of policy change takes years. Therefore,

ODEP will measure its efforts through a continuum of short-term, intermediate, long-term and strategic performance measures.

How will we measure success?– Short-term: Number of policy outputs, formal agreements and effective practices– Intermediate: Number of targeted Federal, state and local agencies and employers

adopting ODEP identified disability employment related policy and practices.– Long-term: Number of targeted Federal, state and local agencies and employers

implementing ODEP identified disability employment-related policy and practices.

– Strategic Impact: Number of workers with disabilities: served and trained through the One Stop system and exiting with minimum wage jobs retained for six months or longer; employed by Federal contractors; employed by and accommodated within Federal agencies; returning to work under FECA; and benefiting from ODEP policies and policy strategies in partner countries within the European Union.

Do you believe these are the right outcomes?

Do you believe these are the right measures for those outcomes?

ODEP Strategies

We are using new approaches.– ODEP will undertake critical inter-agency policy development and

policy strategy activities, as well as public-private partnerships, to improve the labor force participation of all people with disabilities.

Our strategies to achieve these goals include:– Leverage incentives and reduce disincentives to securing “good

jobs.” – Increase Federal workforce participation and make the

government a model employer.– Ensure the availability of and access to universally usable

workplace technology.– Increase and improve access to Workforce Investment Act (WIA)

programs.– Reduce discrimination, ensure civil rights protections, and

promote affirmative hiring programs and authorities.– Improve return-to-work outcomes.– Increase integrated employment at minimum wage or above.– Transition returning wounded and injured service members to

“good jobs.”– Improve employment outcomes for diverse populations, including

women, minorities and transition age youth with disabilities. Do these strategies make sense to you?

Questions

If you would like to send comments to DOL or to learn more about the DOL strategic planning

process, please visit http://www.dol.gov/strategicplan2010.