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The ADA - Twenty Years Later: Progress, Obstacles and Predictions

We at GettingHired.com hope you'll join us for this special ADA Anniversary Training. "The ADA - Twenty Years Later: Progress, Obstacles and Predictions" Date: July15, 2010 Time: 1:00PM - 2:15PM EDT REGISTER NOW Free To Job Seekers with...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2010 10:15 AM by BusyBee

Filed under: ADA, training, ADAAA, USBLN, Matt Sapolin, jobseekers, Jack Fields, The Sierra Group, Janet Fiore, Twenty-First Century Group

Tips for Easing Employer Concerns about Hiring People with Disabilities

By Christy Eichelberger Employers who make a practice of hiring employees with disabilities are helping their companies grow in diversity, improving their stance on affirmative action, and giving themselves access to one of the largest untapped labor...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2010 5:38 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: ADA, Title III of Americans with Disabilities Act, disclosure, interviewing with a disability, employer concerns, hiring people with disabilities

Requesting and Negotiating a Reasonable Accommodation

via Job Accomodation Network From the desk of Linda Carter Batiste, J.D Consultants' Corner Volume 03 Issue 04 Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers with 15 or more employees to provide reasonable accommodations for...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2010 4:44 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: ADA, Employment, EEOC, accomodations, Job Accomodation Network

Workplace Protections extended to millions of additional people under changed Americans with Disabilities Act

Employers beginning to embrace reasonable accommodations By Richard Manning, former Public Affairs Chief of Staff, US Department of Labor As a person living with cancer, diabetes, MS, dyslexia, epilepsy, depression, fibromyalgia, autism spectrum disorder...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 4:04 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, MS, ADA, blind, Workplace, anxiety, depression, wheelchair, epilepsy, people with disabilities, dyslexia, visually impaired, JAN, deaf, hard of hearing, hearing loss, arthritis, EEOC, Autism Spectrum Disorder, employers, amendment, AIDS, schizophrenia, legal, Restoration Act, fibromyalgia, cancer, accommodation, carpal tunnel, lupus, asthma, careers, productivity, chronic fatigue syndrome, bipolar disorder, HIV

Self Advocacy and Accommodations In The Workplace

Self Advocacy and Accommodations In The Workplace By Prudence Shank March 11, 2010 If you have a physical disability or a learning disability, in order for you to be covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and receive accommodations for...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 2:41 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: ADA, learning disabilities, self advocacy, physical disabilities, job performance, accomodations in the workplace

Making Broadway Accessible for the Disabled

Via: The New York Times March 5, 2010 Arts Beat By Erik Piepenburg The next time you complain about not being able to see the stage from the nosebleed sections of a Broadway theater, think about not being able to see the stage at all. “No one wants...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 9:35 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: ADA, blind, deaf, audio description, physical disabilities, sign language interpretation, vision impairment, hearing disabled, TAP, Broadway, low vision, open captioning, The New York Times, Restoration, Theater Development Fund, accessibility program

Severe Nut Allergies Are a Disability, DOE Says

The Enterprise Online CapeNews.net By, Dave Fonseca March 5, 2010 Life-threatening allergies are considered a disability and are covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to a representative from the Department of Elementary and Secondary...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 9:28 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: ADA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, DOE, severe nut allergies, allergy management, nut allergies

Seasonal affective disorder increasingly a workplace issue

Some employees seek adjustments for SAD, serious depression triggered by limited daylight. One teacher sued a school district that refused to move her from a windowless basement room. By Megan Twohey March 4, 2010 Via: Los Angeles Times Reporting from...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2010 3:22 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: ADA, depression, seasonal affective disorder, discrimination against disabled, psychological symptoms, workplace issues, SAD, workplace accomodations

Amended Americans with Disabilities Act opens up new opportunities

More impairments covered and accommodations clarified By: Neil Romano, Former Assistant Secretary of Labor and Head of the Office of Disability Employment Policy February 26, 2010 Twenty years ago, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became the...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2010 9:44 AM by BusyBee

Filed under: ADA, JAN, Office of Disability Employment Policy, Linda Batiste, older employee, Ammended Americans with Disabilities Act, disabled job seeker, Job Accomodation Network, GettingHired.com, US Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment policy, Neil Romano, Assistant Secretary of Labor

Telling the boss 'I have a disability ...'

Via: Herald Palladium By JULIE SWIDWA - H-P Staff Writer Monday, February 15, 2010 Workshop explains how, when and why to let an employer know about a disability BENTON HARBOR - People who are disabled are under no legal obligation to tell their employers...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 8:15 AM by BusyBee

Filed under: ADA, employer obligations, disclosure, Disability Network, hidden disability

What's the Real Cost of accommodation? ADA compliance often comes with a price, the question is, how much?

THonline.com BY M.D. KITTLE TH STAFF WRITER Sunday February 7, 2010 Much has changed since 1990, when the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act became law. While barriers remain, proponents argue the United States has become a more accommodating place...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2010 1:49 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: ADA, reasonable accommodations, JAN, disability accommodations in the workplace, accomodations, anti-discrimination

Americans With Disabilities Applaud President Obama's Intention to Sign the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities

via United States International Council on Disabilities July 21, 2009 The United States International Council on Disabilities (USICD), representing a broad constituency of Americans with disabilities and disability organizations, praises Monday's...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 10:55 AM by BusyBee

Filed under: Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA, people with disabilities, inclusion, access, attainment of adequate standard of living, David Morrissey, international exchange, full equality

Rally focuses on steps taken, work needed to assist disabled people

By Renatta Signorini , LEADER TIMES via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Even though the Americans With Disabilities Act was signed into law 19 years ago, members of the Disability Investigative Group know they still have to fight for...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 10:32 AM by BusyBee

Filed under: Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA, enforcement needed, loopholes should be closed, disability pride rally, 19 years ago, filing complaints with US Postal Service, DIG, inaccessible post office, Disability Investigative Group, Three Rivers Council for Independent Living, Kittanning Post Office, ramps, lack of access, pushing for curb cuts

Pittsburgh stands in world disability rights spotlight

via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette By Tina Calabro Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Last week, as Pittsburgh basked in the unexpected honor of being selected to host a G20 meeting, another small but distinguished group of international leaders came to town to discuss...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2009 12:41 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA, can make decisions, people with disabilities have rights, Access Living of Metro Chicago, EU, access to the built environment, bringing momentum to the ratification process, Richard Thornburgh, Pittsburgh, disability rights standards, Immaculada Placencia-Porrero, Marca Bristo, transportation, European Union, disability rights leaders, Nothing about us without us, University of Pittsburgh, U.S. International Council on Disabilities, Luis Gallegos, United Nations convention on disability rights, can be active members of society, European Union Center of Excellence, European Studies Center of the University Center for International Studies, Pittsburgh Council for International Visitors, Pitt's School of Health and Rehabilitation Science, treaty marks a global paradigm shift, information technology

Supreme Court sides with sidewalk activist

Disabled man wins push to clear way via Concord Monitor By Margot Sanger-Katz, Monitor staff June 13, 2009 Bill Tinker likes to ride his scooter around downtown Tilton. The Northfield man has respiratory, circulatory and orthopedic problems that make...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2009 12:11 PM by BusyBee

Filed under: Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA, NH, snow removal, New Hampshire Supreme Court, Tilton, municipality required to accommodate people with disabilities, allow access, town required to clear sidewalks, access for pedestrians, scooter

The ADA - Twenty Years Later: Progress, Obstacles and Predictions

Tips for Easing Employer Concerns about Hiring People with Disabilities

Requesting and Negotiating a Reasonable Accommodation

Workplace Protections extended to millions of additional people under changed Americans with Disabilities Act

Self Advocacy and Accommodations In The Workplace

Making Broadway Accessible for the Disabled

Severe Nut Allergies Are a Disability, DOE Says

Seasonal affective disorder increasingly a workplace issue

Amended Americans with Disabilities Act opens up new opportunities

Telling the boss 'I have a disability ...'

What's the Real Cost of accommodation? ADA compliance often comes with a price, the question is, how much?

Americans With Disabilities Applaud President Obama's Intention to Sign the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities

Rally focuses on steps taken, work needed to assist disabled people

Pittsburgh stands in world disability rights spotlight

Supreme Court sides with sidewalk activist

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