The Maryland Customized Employment Project, an initiative of
Supported Employment Enterprise Corporation, will improve employment outcomes for individuals with developmental disabilities by building collaborative partnerships with jobseekers and their families, state agencies and employers.
A pioneering social
enterprise, Greyston practices Open Hiring ™ — providing jobs to individuals who face barriers to
employment — in its world - class bakery and
supports its employees and community members with a range of Community Programs.
Mr. Speaker, we note that several transition programs run under the various government institutions and agencies including the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the National Vocational and Technical Institute (NVTI), Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), Youth
Enterprises Support and the Youth
Employment Authority, have targeted non-tertiary graduates.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, (1) it shall not be an unlawful
employment practice for an employer to hire and employ employees, for an
employment agency to classify, or refer for
employment any individual, for a labor organization to classify its membership or to classify or refer for
employment any individual, or for an employer, labor organization, or joint labor - management committee controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining programs to admit or employ any individual in any such program, on the basis of his religion, sex, or national origin in those certain instances where religion, sex, or national origin is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or
enterprise, and (2) it shall not be an unlawful
employment practice for a school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning to hire and employ employees of a particular religion if such school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning is, in whole or in substantial part, owned,
supported, controlled, or managed by a particular religion or by a particular religious corporation, association, or society, or if the curriculum of such school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning is directed toward the propagation of a particular religion.
Strategies: Macro Regional
Employment and Economic Development Strategy; Ongoing
support for CDEP organisation; CDEP used to pursue development of small business
enterprises; Wunan Foundation; Kimberley Group Training; Tourism development.