Disability Employment

The broad domain encompassing how disability intersects with employment, including hiring discrimination, workplace accommodations, underemployment, employment gaps, and alternative work arrangements. Disabled people face persistent employment disparities, with significantly lower employment rates and earnings than non-disabled peers. Barriers include inaccessible hiring processes, inflexible work structures, employer bias, and benefits systems that penalize employment. Understanding disability employment requires recognizing that many disabled people pursue non-traditional work arrangements—freelancing, gig work, or self-employment—because traditional employment structures are fundamentally inaccessible.