All rights reserved. Hiring employees with disabilities increases workers' compensation insurance rates. Insurance rates are based solely on the relative hazards of the operation and the organization's accident experience, not on whether workers have disabilities. Employees with disabilities have a higher absentee rate than employees without disabilities. Studies by firms such as Dupont show that employees with disabilities are not absent any more than employees without disabilities.
Considerable expense is necessary to accommodate workers with disabilities.
Most workers with disabilities require no special accommodations and the cost for those who do is minimal or much lower than many employers believe.