Employee Research System (ERS)
The Employee Research System (ERS) will track employment of people with significant disabilities over time. This nationwide database will enable analysis of worker-level outcomes for AbilityOne Workers with disabilities, non-AbilityOne workers with disabilities; and others receiving services. The goals of the ERS are to support research and evaluation, advocacy, policy development, business development and fundraising, benchmarking, continuous improvement and Quality Work Environments (QWE) for people with disabilities.
538 NISH-affiliated nopnprofit agencies (NPAs) employ 41,000 people with disabilities on AbilityOne contracts and overall, employ approximately 120,000 people with disabilities. This makes the AbilityOne Program the largest employer of people with disabilities in the country. The nonprofit agencies signed up to participate in the ERS represent more than 20% of the NISH-affiliated AbilityOne employees. the list of currently participating nonprofit agencies is updated regularly on this website.
Sign up your agency now to make the data even more complete. Participating NPAs will receive reports such as:
- Employment statistics by Congressional district
- Worker wages and hours worked by industry
- Length of employment by industry
- Demographics of AbilityOne workers
- Benchmarking against other organizations by geographic region or industry
Phase 1 of the system will enable NISH-affiliated NPAs to extract commonly available data from payroll or other automated systems to an Excel spreadsheet, and submit it securely to the ERS on a quarterly basis. Phase 1 of the ERS will be complete by September 30, 2010. Data submissions will begin in October, and the initial reports will be available to participating NPAs in January, 2011.
To learn more or to sign up for Phase 1, fill out our form now!
To read more about ERS, see the menu under About ERS.
