Employment
Everyone deserves the opportunity to find meaningful work
Overview
This page provides tools, programs, and guidance to help you prepare for employment, find a job, or start your own business.
Employment Legislation
- Repeal of Minimum Wage Exemption for Workers with Disabilities (2022)
- Equal pay protections established
- Repealing Minimum Wage Exemption for Alaskans with Disabilities (2022)
- Employment First Act (2014)
- Law prioritizing competitive, integrated employment for people with disabilities.
Key Employment Publications
Alaska Transitions Handbook Pathway to Adulthood & Employment
- A guide to help navigates many possible options to obtain employment. This acts as a resource to help understand the services that are available to successfully achieve employment and to provide a timeline to better assist focused planning of transition-related activities.
Empowerment Through Employment
- This resource was developed to help realize the vision of “Empowerment through Employment” for Alaskans experiencing a range of disabilities. This document includes many of those resources with web links to where you can find more information.
Alaska Work Matters Task Force
- The Alaska Work Matters Task Force was tasked to review and analyze existing policies, practices, and procedures, barriers, and workforce utilization data regarding the employment of people with disabilities in the State of Alaska and prepare a report that includes recommendations that should be adopted by the Governor.