The APS Disability Employment Strategy 2020 – 2025 was a welcome start in the fight for fair and reasonable conditions to be applied for all workers in the APS.
However, the current strategy hasn’t gone deep enough into fixing structural problems APS workers with disabilities face. The strategy is not ambitious enough, lacks power behind asking for reasonable adjustments and is empty of critical supports like disability leave.
Enforcement of newly won rights, like working from home, remain more difficult for workers with disabilities. This is a national shame on the APS, who should strive to be the model employer for all workers.