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Database of More Than 1,700 Job Candidates With Disabilities to Be Made Available to Employers: To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Bennett Gamble, +1-202-693-4667, or Richard Manning, +1- 202-693-4676, both of the U.S. Department of Labor WASHINGTON, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On March 19, the U.S. Department of Labor will make available to employers nationwide a free database of 1,769 new job candidates with disabilities seeking...; Tags: Databases, disability, HARDWARE, job, SOFTWARE, Storage, U.S. Department of Labor, workforce; Research articles 2008-03-18
Goodwill Industries Lobbies for a Diverse and Skilled Workforce: More than 60 Goodwill representatives from across the United States will gather on Capitol Hill on October 24 to advocate on behalf of people with disabilities, low-wage workers and other job seekers who are trying to enter the workforce for the first time or advance their careers. "The U.S....; Tags: CAREER, disability, financial, Goodwill, job, U.S. Congress, worker, workforce; Research articles 2007-10-22
Employers Gain Access to Database of 2,000 Job Candidates With Disabilities: To: LABOR EDITORSContact: Jennifer Kaplan, +1-202-693-5052, or Richard Manning, +1- 202-693-4660, both of the U.S. Department of Labor WASHINGTON, March 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Labor has made available to employers nationwide a free database of approximately 2,000 new job candidates with disabilities seeking work in a wide...; Tags: Databases, disability, HARDWARE, job, SOFTWARE, Storage, U.S. Department of Labor; Research articles 2007-03-29
Labor law: accommodations for disabilities--what is reasonable?: The Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act were both intended to provide protection for qualified individuals with disabilities who wanted to be gainfully employed. At the time these statutes were passed, considerable discrimination existed against individuals with disabilities, even though they desired work and...; Tags: accommodation, disability, job, statute, supervisor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Research articles 2007-03-01
Disabled ADA: How a Narrowing ADA Threatens To Exclude the Cognitively Disabled, The: I. INTRODUCTION Congress, in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990(1) ADA, found that upwards of forty-three million Americans have one or more physical or mental disabilities.2 More current United States Census Bureau estimates put that number at 49.7 million.3 Included among those disabled are 12.4 million cognitively disabled Americans...; Tags: Albertson, Cir, disability, impairment, job, Sutton, Toyota Motor Corp., U.S. Congress, Williams; Research articles 2006-09-01

THE DUTY TO ACCOMMODATE A PERSON WHO IS PERCEIVED AS DISABLED: SAY IT ISN'T SO: Many workers in today's workplaces have physical or mental impairments. Many of those impaired workers could benefit from accommodations in the policies and practices governing their workplaces. But which impaired employees must legally be accommodated?Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 protects qualified individuals with disabilities from...; Tags: accommodation, ConAgra Foods Inc., disability, impairment, job; Research articles 2006-07-01
ResCare Awarded $14 Million Job Corps Contract Renewal; Acosta Center Two-Year Contract with Options to Renew: LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- ResCare, Inc. (NASDAQ/NM:RSCR), the nation's leading provider of residential, training, educational and support services for special needs youth and persons with disabilities, announced today that its Division for Training Services has been awarded a $14.3 million contract by the U.S. Department of Labor to continue operating the...; Tags: Company, disability, job, renewal, training, U.S. Department of Labor; Research articles 2004-09-07
Las Vegas Review-Journal Inside Business Column.: Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 29--BUSINESS GROUP SEEKS AWARD NOMINEES: The U.S. Small Business Administration is urging small businesses that innovated to expand job opportunities for people with disabilities to submit entries for the 2004 New Freedom Initiative...; Tags: disability, FINANCE, job, MARKETING, SOFTWARE, U.S. Small Business Administration; Research articles 2004-04-29
Supreme court cases 2002-2003 term: Each year the United States Supreme Court is asked to review a multitude of cases covering a variety of legal topics. The 2002-2003 Supreme Court session was no different. The justices decided several cases of interest to law enforcement officers and management. The Court decided two cases involving confessions. Three...; Tags: accommodation, disability, job, officer, U.S. Circuit Court, Williams, worker; Research articles 2004-04-01
Hiring the disabled isn't charity it's smart business.(VIEWPOINT): It's becoming less of a secret each day, but there is still a need to spread the news throughout the business community: hiring people with a disability isn't a good thing to do; it's a smart thing to do. And given two trends currently...; Tags: disability, hiring, job; Research articles 2005-11-07
Supreme Court cases 2001-2002 term - Legal Digest: In its most recent term, the Supreme Court of the United States decided several cases of significance to law enforcement. The cases included several decisions regarding Fourth Amendment issues; one concerning Eighth Amendment cruel and unusual punishment; and several important decisions regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act. This article includes...; Tags: accommodation, arbitration, Chevron Corp., disability, impairment, job, officer, probation, regulation, search, suspicion, Toyota Motor Corp., Williams; Research articles 2002-12-01
No job rights for impaired worker: The Americans with Disabilities Act protects disabled persons from employment discrimination. It requires employers--if they are able to do so without undue hardship--to make reasonable accommodations so that a disabled person is not precluded from doing work that the person could otherwise do. To be entitled to an accommodation,...; Tags: accommodation, disability, impairment, job, Toyota Motor Corp., Williams, worker; Research articles 2002-11-01
The at-risk worker and the ADA. (Labor Law for Supervisors).: The Americans with Disabilities Act ADA prohibits employers from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities based on their disabilities. The ban covers discrimination in hiring and other types of workplace advancement. One type of unlawful discrimination can be the use of qualification standards that may serve...; Tags: Chevron Corp., disability, job, regulation, supervisor, U.S. Congress, worker, workplace; Research articles 2002-11-01
Providence, R.I., Nonprofit Job Assistance Group Shuts Down after Grant Denial.: By Lynn Arditi, Providence Journal, R.I. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 5--PROVIDENCE, R.I.--A small nonprofit job assistance group that shut down this week because it was denied a federal grant received a low ranking from a group of outside evaluators, an agency...; Tags: disability, job, Providence, spokesman, Strategy, U.S. Department of Education; Research articles 2002-10-05
Nonprofit Forced to Close in Providence, R.I.: By Lynn Arditi, Providence Journal, R.I. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 3--PROVIDENCE, R.I.--A small nonprofit organization that for 19 years helped people with disabilities find jobs abruptly shut down on Monday after learning that it had lost a bid to renew its...; Tags: disability, FINANCE, financing, Investment, job, Strategy, U.S. Department of Education; Research articles 2002-10-03
The ADA meets the seniority system in the Supreme Court. (Labor Law for Supervisors).(Americans with Disabilities Act): In this term of the United States Supreme Court, two employment policies met head-on and scattered the justices into several different camps. The case was US Airways v. Barnett, 122 S. Ct. 1516 (April 29, 2002). The question was: How does the...; Tags: accommodation, disability, Discrimination, job, supervisor, US Airways Group Inc.; Research articles 2002-09-01
American Airlines adopts new policy in disability discrimination settlement with EEOC.: M2 PRESSWIRE-16 May 2002-American Airlines: American Airlines adopts new policy in disability discrimination settlement with EEOC C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05152002 DALLAS -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC and American Airlines have reached an agreement by which the...; Tags: American Airlines, disability, job, settlement; Research articles 2002-05-16
ADB grant to help disabled find jobs in Mongolia.: M2 PRESSWIRE-16 May 2002-ADB: ADB grant to help disabled find jobs in Mongolia C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05162002 MANILA, PHILIPPINES -- The Asian Development Bank ADB has agreed to provide a US$1 million grant to help some 4,000 poor people with ...; Tags: Asian Development Bank, disability, job, SALES, Strategy; Research articles 2002-05-16
High Court Narrows Definition of Disabled.: By Melanie Payne, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 9--In a ruling hailed as a victory for the nation's employers, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday made it much harder for workers to pursue disability claims and obtain workplace...; Tags: accommodation, California, disability, job, worker; Research articles 2002-01-09
Americans with disabilities: Are they losing ground?: Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA in 1990 to protect disabled individuals against discriminatory practices in employment based solely on their disability. Under the act, if an individual is otherwise qualified and can perform the core job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, he...; Tags: accommodation, Albertson, disability, impairment, job, standards, U.S. Department of Transportation; Research articles 2002-01-01