Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy Kathleen Martinez and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner David V. Aguilar signed an alliance agreement that supports President Obama's executive order to hire more disabled people by federal agencies.
"Today's alliance is an opportunity for ODEP and CBP to demonstrate disability employment practices that will not only result in increased hires at CBP but easily can be replicated by other federal agencies seeking to fulfill the requirements of their executive order plans," Martinez says.
The Labor Department's Office of Disability Employment Policy's Alliance Initiative, which first started in 2006, helps organizations that strive to better disability workplace practices to work with ODEP to create and execute model policies and initiatives that increase recruiting, hiring, advancing and retaining employees with disabilities. ODEP and CBP will join to encourage effective strategies and practices.
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"CBP is proud to be the first federal agency to partner with the Department of Labor on an alliance to advance opportunities for workers with disabilities," Aguilar says. "By signing this alliance agreement, CBP commits to recruit, hire, advance and retain employees with disabilities more effectively than ever before."
As part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's largest and most complex components, CBP is tasked with keeping out terrorists and their weapons of the U.S. as well as securing and overseeing trade and travel while enforcing hundreds of U.S. regulations, including immigration and drug laws.
ODEP's objective is to develop and influence disability on a national scale for employment-related policies that help increase the employment of people with disabilities. Along with CBP, ODEP has alliances with the Partnership for Public Service, the Society for Human Resource Management, the U.S. Business Leadership Network, the HSC Foundation and the National Association of Governors' Committees on People with Disabilities.
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