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It Really Works: North Dakota Business

Maintaining Your Critical Edge in Business

Host: In today’s business world, companies search for ways to gain a critical advantage in a highly competitive marketplace.

Employers strive to put the people, practices, and material in place that will aid them in garnishing a greater share of the market and maximize their customer service.

In North Dakota, there is a program that can help businesses gain that significant edge.

We're Rehabilitation Consulting & Services or RCS. We have the people and services that can have a positive impact on your bottom-line.

RCS can help your business meet the challenges of today’s work environment.

Narrator: Serving our clients is the primary focus of everything we do, whether businesses with disability-related issues or individuals with disabilities.

RCS has the expertise and knowledge to help your business make the most of each of our services.

Our consultants serve as key resources for information on staffing, financial incentives, accessibility and accommodation options and educational programs. Plus, we can supply you with critical knowledge and resources on the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Best of all, RCS services are free to all North Dakota businesses and employers.] [The only costs you may incur are for the modifications you make or for any “reasonable accommodations” you implement.

Staffing

Your business needs qualified and reliable job applicants] [and we can help by connecting you with a qualified and largely untapped North Dakota labor force.

RCS represents people with abilities who can contribute to your business’ productivity and profitability.

We are your primary source of information when it comes to employing individuals with disabilities. RCS consultants work with you to insure proper job matches.

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Working with RCS, you can be assured that your job applicants are PRESCREENED, QUALIFIED and PROPERLY MATCHED to your needs.

We want you to find success by employing individuals with disabilities.

However, we are far more than an employment program for individuals with disabilities. RCS provides high quality programs and services that will enhance your ability to compete.

Financial Incentives

RCS consultants are resources for the latest information on financial incentives available for employing individuals with disabilities or making your business accessible.

Your business can benefit from a variety of financial assistance programs.

On the job training funds are available to employers for the time they take to train a qualified individual with a disability as an employee.

Work Opportunity Tax Credits allows an employer to take up to 40% of the first $6,000 in first year’s wages when hiring a qualified individual with a disability.

Small businesses, that in the first year earned $1 million or less in gross receipts or had 30 or fewer full-time employees, are eligible to take an annual tax credit for making their businesses accessible to individuals with disabilities.

Businesses may also take an annual deduction for expenses incurred to remove physical, structural and transportation barriers for persons with disabilities.

RCS consultants can show you how a progressive attitude towards making your business accessible and employing individuals with disabilities can affect your bottom line.

Accessibility and Accommodation Options

Hiring and retaining a productive work force and insuring that your business is accessible are critical challenges to today’s employer. RCS can assist you in developing strategies to meet those challenges successfully.

Whether through a work station analysis, job restructuring, or an ADA site assessment, our consultants can show you how a reasonable accommodation doesn't have to be expensive and can have a positive impact on your business environment.

RCS consultants, along with our Interagency Project for Assistive Technology (IPAT) partners, can also identify the latest in assistive technology. By utilizing assistive technology, businesses can insure that employees who incur a disability while employed by your company may remain a viable contributor to your workforce.

Plus, assistive technology can open the door to a variety of potential employees.

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Access to your goods and services are critical to business success. We can demonstrate how making your business accessible to individuals with disabilities will have a positive impact on all your customers.

In this time of a highly competitive marketplace, don’t you want as many customers as possible to access your business?

RCS is the leader in disability related solutions. We can help your business develop progressive and proactive approaches to these important issues.

Education and Training

RCS consultants can help awaken a broader understanding of the diversity in today’s work force.

Awareness and understanding is the key to creating a positive working environment for all employees, including individuals with disabilities.

In a time when we see an increasing number of individuals with disabilities, both as employees and consumers, RCS assists you in educating your staff as to the “Do’s and Don’ts” when working with or marketing to this growing segment of our population.

The Americans with Disabilities Act represents the most comprehensive federal legislation on disabilities since the Rehabilitation Act. Our consultants can help you understand the positive role the ADA is having on business today.

RCS consultants provide key information and education to insure that you understand your responsibilities in areas like employment, accessibility and accommodations.

As a result of our educational programs, you will come to realize that the ADA enhances your business opportunities. ] [RCS can show you how the standards of the ADA can benefit not only individuals with disabilities, but all North Dakotans as well.

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Our consultants can help you develop an education strategy that will help you avoid conflicts and find success by building a strong knowledge on disability-related issues.

Host: As you can see, Rehabilitation Consulting and Services has the programs and incentives to help your business meet the challenges of today’s work environment.

We are the primary resource for businesses seeking solutions to their disability-related issues and for employing individuals with disabilities.

Our consultants can provide expertise on the Americans with Disabilities Act as well as serve as a key source of information on staffing, financial incentives, accessibility and accommodation options and educational programs.

RCS can help your business gain a critical business advantage by connecting with a qualified and largely untapped North Dakota labor force.

Plus you can take advantage of RCS programs and services designed to maintain that critical edge.

Discover for yourself what thousands of North Dakotans are already saying, “Rehabilitation Consulting and Services, it really works!”

 

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