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The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination. Once an employee discloses a disability, the expectation is ...
Getting an employment opportunity is often the first hurdle for people with disabilities. Some 25% of people say they have a disability or health condition that limits a major life activity, according ...
People with disabilities are not a monolith. While activists have worked for years to draw attention to diversity within the disability community, particularly in the workplace, a new report from ...
People with disabilities are 15% of the world’s population and yet half as likely as their nondisabled peers to be in the workforce. Many factors contribute to these disparities, such as inequitable ...
Curbing disability discrimination in the workplace is everyone’s responsibility. And it’s unfair, though all too common, to place all of the burden on people with disabilities to absorb, defuse, or ...
A poll found that 43 percent of all respondents believed that people with disabilities are not given equal opportunities for employment and advancement in the workplace. SWNS It’s all of us or none of ...
Work disability and sickness absence represent critical challenges that affect individuals’ health, quality of life and socioeconomic participation. These conditions arise when physical or mental ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Professor Michelle Travis covers emerging workplace law and policy. As the pandemic has increased the number of individuals with ...
Iowans with disabilities are calling on Iowa lawmakers again to change income restrictions on Medicaid benefits that they say make it hard for them to work.
The Supreme Court mandated Coal India to hire a disabled woman as a management trainee, emphasizing disability rights as vital to corporate social responsibility.
Last week, a jury awarded an employee $450,000 after his company threw him a birthday party despite his warnings that it would cause anxiety. According to documents filed in the lawsuit, the plaintiff ...