Announcing 2025 Employer Summit: 10th Annual Event

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Announcing 2025 Employer Summit: 10th Annual Event Conference on disability inclusion in the workforce opens with early bird pricing. GREENVILLE, SC (June 5, 2025) – Able South…

How to use Civility as an agency tool for success

How to use Civility as an agency tool for success by Director of Employment Programs, Marly Saade March, 2025 When sitting to write this blog, I realized that I had…

Response to Remarks on FAA Hiring and Disability Inclusion

STATEMENT – 1/30/2025 Trigger Warning: Discussion of ableist language and disability discrimination Response to Remarks on FAA Hiring and Disability Inclusion No matter what position you hold or what party…

Navigating the workforce through a multi-marginalized person’s lens

Navigating the workforce through a multi-marginalized person’s lens by Director of Employment Programs, Marly Saade August, 2024 “I don’t like Arabs”, “Are you stupid,“ and “She can’t do that because…

Meet the SC brewers and distillers making more inclusive workplaces for those with disabilities

Outdated laws that funnel South Carolina adults with intellectual disabilities into low-paying jobs can make it difficult to gain experience needed to lead independent lives, advocates say.

‘It depresses her:’ 1 in 5 workers with disabilities lost their job due to the pandemic

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has impacted the workforce for many people across the U.S. but data shows workers with disabilities were impacted at a higher rate.

Hire Me SC to coincide with disability employment awareness month

Employers and human resource professionals in South Carolina can take the next step in building a hiring plan inclusive of individuals with disabilities at the Hire Me SC Employer Summit on Oct. 7, 2020.

Lawmakers, advocacy groups look to eliminate subminimum wage jobs for SC workers with disabilities

In South Carolina, thousands of people with disabilities can work a job and only make a fraction of the minimum wage.

Hire Me SC to hold remote workforce training for employers

Hire Me SC, a part of Able SC, is an organization advocating for people with disabilities in the workforce and they’re holding several events during the COVID 19 pandemic to assist with the changing work atmosphere.