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2006
December
Programs
Warn Minimum Wage Rule Would Force Workshop Closures
Advocates Protested Efforts To
Overturn 1913 Blind Massage Worker Law
Appeals Court Rejects Nebraska's
Corporate Farm Ban
Employment Program's Ex-Boss Pays $13
Million To Settle Misconduct Claims
UPS Settles Improper Firing
Claim
Study: Many With Epilepsy
Fear Workplace Discrimination
November
Former
Bank One Employees To Split $2.2 Million In Wrongful Termination
Settlement
Senate Panel To
Reform 68-Year-Old Jobs Program
Students Train For Jobs In Electronic
Media Field
Former Firefighter
In $100 Million Fight For Old Job
Critics Worry Minimum Wage Bill Would End
Sheltered Workshops
October
School
Wrongfully Dismissed Blind Teacher Over Sighted Aide, Judge Rules
UK Study: Businesses Need More Support To
Deal With Mental Illnesses
First
Chamber Of Commerce For Entrepreneurs With Disabilities
Appeals Court: UPS Must Change Hearing
Test Requirement For Deaf Would-Be Drivers
AAPD Study: Low Employment, Low Wages
Still Plague Americans With Disabilities
Wal-Mart Compensatory Damages Were Too
Punitive, Judge Rules
Crusader
Helps Children And Women Achieve
Denny's Policies Violate Workers'
Rights, EEOC Claims
September
EEOC:
United Airlines Violated Reservations Workers' Rights
The Key To Happiness: Work
High Court Orders State To Freeze Hirings
Until Disability Quotas Are Met
August
Self-Employment
Plan To Replace Street Begging
Advocacy Agency Faces Discrimination
Suit
Report: Public Employers
Ignore Minimum Wage Law
Fired
Federal Worker Claims Employer Failed Her
July
Sheltered Work
Program Told To Modernize
State Appeals Ruling For Former Head Of
Blind Services
Troubled
Employment Program Gets Approval To Continue Federal Contracts
Series Compares Sheltered Workshops And
Supported Employment
Woman's Test
Victory Could Help Thousands
Governor Agrees To Call Special Session Over
Medicaid Work Incentive Program
Sears To Pay Saleswoman $150,000 To
Settle Discrimination Complaint
Employment Agency Changes Name In Effort
To Rescue Federal Set-Aside Contracts
Groups Encourage Micro-Loans To Help
Country's Development
June
EEOC: Federal
Agencies Slowed In Employing Workers With Disabilities
Justice Department Says Corporate Farm
Ban Violates ADA
EEOC: District
Discriminates Against One Of Its Own
California Court: Employers Must Discuss
Accommodations With Workers
May
President's
Panel: Troubled Employment Program Can Continue With Federal
Contracts
UPS Cites
"Long-Standing Partnerships" With Disability Groups In Defense Of
Discrimination Claims
Census:
Employment Rates Up, But Earning Levels Down
April
Failure To
Accommodate Costs Council Thousands
Restaurant To Pay $90,000 To Settle
Harassment And Discrimination Claims
Scandal Plagues Iowa Employment
Consortium
City Agrees To End
Fight Against Former Trucker
Would-Be Entrepreneurs Protest Lack Of
Business Start-Up Aid
Citing
Recent ADA Rulings, Supreme Court Sends Nebraska Case Back For Review
High Court: Plaintiffs In Maine Employment
Suits Need Not Prove Limitations
March
Compliance
Problems With Federal Contracts Could Mean Layoffs For Thousands
Ex-Boss
To Pay For Teasing Employee
Aide Refuses To Settle With Education
Employer Over Retaliation Claims
Hooters "Girl" Sues Over Disability
Discrimination
Cruelty Is Costly To
Employer
Employers Still Have Low
Expectations Of Workers With Disabilities, Survey Says
Jury Orders FedEx To Pay $108,000 For
Failing To Provide ASL Interpreters
February
Study
Finds Most Job Accommodations Cost Little Or Nothing
Day Program Participants Mutiny To Start
Own "Squad"
Alito Appeals Court
Rules Request For Specific Accommodation Is Not Needed
Former DaimlerChrysler Worker Sues On
Discrimination Claims
January
Switchboard
Operator's Termination Was Discriminatory, Jury Rules
Former Head Of Blind Services Will Not Be
Reinstated
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2005
December
Sheltered
Workshop Employee Fired For Leaving Woman In Restroom
Telemarketing Firm To Pay Blind Woman
$200,000 For Rejecting Her Guide Dog
Study: Thirty-Percent Of People With
Disabilities In UK Live In Poverty
Judge: State's Corporate Farm Ban
Violates ADA
Report: Time To
Toss Outdated Social Security Employment Rules
Demonstrator Ends Hunger Strike, But
Continues Protest Over Sign Language Methods
Former City Worker Settles Suit Over Bathroom
Breaks
November
State Ordered To
Pay $3 Million To Former Blindness Bureau Director
Blind Woman Sues State Agency For Alleged
Discriminatory Firing
Study:
Unemployment, Poverty Still High For Blind Canadians
October
Senate Panel:
Federal Programs Help Executives, But Fail Workers With Disabilities
Lawsuit And Media Exposure Prompt Police
To Allow Constable With Hearing Loss
State Goofed, Must Return $300,000 To
Feds
Students With Disabilities
Learn Skills At South African Culinary Academy
September
Blind
Employee Not Given Tools To Help People With Disabilities
August
High School
Students Get Chance At Hotel Summer Jobs
Former Federal Worker Wins Employment
Discrimination Suit
Disability Theme Dining: Just For
Trendy Europeans?
EEOC:
Discrimination Suit Against Sears Will Proceed
July
Few Performers
With Disabilities Get Acting Jobs, Study Reveals
Company Finds Success In Hiring Workers With
Disabilities
June
Wal-Mart
Discrimination Penalty Reduced By $4.7 Million
Survey Shows Workers Don't Want
Segregated Work Settings
Court
Rejects DuPont's Appeal Of $1 Million Discrimination Award
School Ordered To Pay Nearly Half A Million
To Teachers Over Discrimination
May
London To Open
Darkened Restaurant
Deaf Employee
Sues Albertsons Over Workplace Mistreatment
Australian Job Seekers To Get Taxi
Subsidy
April
British Automobile
Association Targets Workers With Disabilities For Firing, Union
Claims
Many Senegalese Women
With Disabilities Are Forced To Beg In Streets
Honda Canada To Pay Record Damages To
Fatigued Worker
Technology
Gives Blind Employees The Chance To Prove Themselves In The Workplace
March
Workplace
Accommodations Are Easy, Attitudes Are Not
"Hire Abilities" Project Launched In
Hawaii
Sheltered Workshops And
Families Object To Minimum Wage Bill
After Passing State Test, Young Baker
Finds "Sweet Success" In Her Own Business
Idaho Senate Passes Measure To Allow Workers
To Keep Medical Benefits
February
Artist Finds
True Love Online
Couple
Helps Build Housing For Others With Disabilities
Worker Claims Wal-Mart Reassigned Him
Over Cerebral Palsy
Student
Turns Towing Solution Into Growing Business
Tony Blair Launches Controversial
Employment Incentives To Reduce Disability Benefits
January
Mechanic Gets
Back His Job And His Wheels
Former
Employees Allege Non-Profit Discriminates Against Workers With
Disabilities
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2004
December
More Options
For New Yorkers With Developmental Disabilities Coming Of Age
Judge Cuts ADA Jury Award
Man Will Appeal Golf Cart Ban
November
Project Has
Helped 1,000 Welsh Entrepreneurs Establish Businesses
Employers Urged To Employ People With
Disabilities And Technologies
October
EEOC Reports On
Employment "Best Practices" Project
EEOC Releases Fact Sheet On Employment
Rights Of People With Intellectual Disabilities
Auto Component Maker Faces EEOC
Discrimination Suit
Theme Chosen
For National Disability Employment Awareness Month
Recruitment Website Courts Job-Seekers
With Disabilities
September
Disability
Services Worker Claims Employer Discriminated Against Her (Sept. 29,
2004)
Was ADA Violated On Network
Television? (Sept. 28, 2004)
Parents Sue Sheltered Workshop For
Abusing Workers/Clients (Sept. 21, 2004)
More Employment Options Available To Workers
With Disabilities (Sept. 16, 2004)
UPS Policies Violate ADA, Workers Charge
(Sept. 10, 2004)
August
Washington
Continues Movement Away From Sheltered Workshops (August 23, 2004)
Program Helps Beggars Become Entrepreneurs
(August 9, 2004)
Prison Officers
Are Being Fired To Avoid Discrimination Law, Union Claims (August 4,
2004)
July
Survey Finds
Scottish Disability Charities Fail To Hire People With Disabilities (July 16,
2004)
EEOC: Call Center Failed To
Accommodate Employee's Needs (July 8, 2004)
June
Meatpackers File
Discrimination Suit (June 25, 2004)
Campaign Launched To Urge Hiring Blind
Workers (June 14, 2004)
May
Among Canadians With
Disabilities, Unionized Men Earn Best Wages (May 25, 2004)
Defense Measure Would Remove Priority For
Blind Vendors (May 21, 2004)
New
Zealand To Toss "Outdated"
Sheltered Workshop Pay (May 18, 2004)
Government Sets Aside Funds For
"Income-Generating" Projects (May 3, 2004)
April
Supreme Court:
Fired Employee Can Sue School District For Discrimination (April 28,
2004)
March
Police Recruit Wins
Settlement Over Diabetes Discrimination (March 31, 2004)
Former Town Manager Claims Board Used
Disability As Excuse To Fire Her (March 25, 2004)
News Story Helps Tom Land Job (March 19,
2004)
"Disability-Friendly"
Employer Loses Federal Suit Over Firing (March 5, 2004)
Circuit City Accused Of Creating Hostile
Environment For Worker (March 3, 2004)
February
Leaders Wrap-up
First National Emerging Workforce Conference (Feb. 12, 2004)
Sheltered Workshop Pay Compared To Sweatshop
Pay (Feb. 9, 2004)
January
Wal-Mart Suit Can
Move Forward, Judge Says (Jan. 28, 2004)
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2003
December
Actors Change
Perceptions Of People With Disabilities (Dec. 30, 2003)
Jobs Protesters Injured In Clash With
Police (Dec. 30, 2003)
Federal Jury
Awards $230,000 To Garbage Collector After Wrongful Firing (Dec. 29,
2003)
Postal Worker Leads
Multi-Million Settlement For Disability Class-Action Suit (Dec. 15,
2003)
Missile Plant Could Refuse To
Rehire Recovering Addicts, Supreme Court Rules (Dec. 11, 2003)
November
High Court's
First Ruling Is Against Worker With Disabilities (Nov. 13, 2003)
October
"Making
Life Better For The Disabled" (Oct. 30, 2003)
Business Network Promotes Hiring Workers With
Disabilities (Oct. 28, 2003)
EEOC
Says Monsanto Discriminated Against Former Employee (Oct. 22, 2003)
High Court To Decide Whether Recovering
Addicts Must Be Rehired Under ADA (Oct. 8, 2003)
DaimlerChrysler And UAW Settle
Disability Discrimination Suit With Workers (Oct. 2, 2003)
Businesses Have One Year To Comply With
Disability Law, Minister Warns (Oct. 1, 2003)
September
"The Rewards Of
Work" (Sept. 30, 2003)
Couple Turns
Garage, Dream Into Bat House Biz (Sept. 30, 2003)
Home Depot Ignored Job Coach When Firing
Worker, EEOC Claims (Sept. 26, 2003)
Agencies Cooperate To Match 100 People With
Jobs By Labor Day 2004 (Sept. 25, 2003)
Bill Porter's Story Wins Big At Emmy Awards
(Sept. 22, 2003)
Sheltered Workshop
To Close, 180 People To Be Matched With Community Jobs And Activities (Sept.
22, 2003)
Trinidad
Activists Score Victory With 15-Week Protest (Sept. 4, 2003)
August
Employment
Initiative Fills In Gaps (August 25, 2003)
Kenny Finds Life At The Candy Box Is Sweet
Perfection (August 7, 2003)
College
To Face Employment Tribunal Over Discrimination Claims (August 1,
2003)
Kmart Discriminated Against
Qualified Worker, Suit Claims (August 1, 2003)
July
Court Patrons And
Employees Sue For Courthouse Access (July 25, 2003)
UPS Settles Discrimination Suit With Deaf
Employees (July 22, 2003)
State
High Court Rules Cheese Factory Must Accommodate Workers With Disability (July
11, 2003)
Kojis' Flower Business Is
Growing (July 7, 2003)
June
More People With
Disabilities Are Needed In Front Of, And Behind, The Camera (June 12,
2003)
MDA Ban Against Volunteers
With Muscular Dystrophy Is OK, Judge Rules (June 10, 2003)
Senator From Minnesota Sued For Disability
Discrimination (June 4, 2003)
May
Duo Excels
With Computer Technology (May 21, 2003)
Workers With Disabilities Call Company's
Offer "A Disgrace" (May 5, 2003)
Employee To Receive $45,000 In Discrimination
Case Settlement (May 2, 2003)
Truck
Driver Wins In Settlement Of Discrimination Case (May 2, 2003)
April
Advocates Call
Sub-Minimum Wage Rule "Discriminatory" (April 25, 2003)
High Court Rules Against Wells;
Further Narrows ADA (April 23, 2003)
"Costly" Employee Gets Job Back, Along
With A Raise (April 24, 2003)
Street Vendors Clash With Guards At
State House (April 15, 2003)
State
Must Pay Snubbed Blind Vendors (April 2, 2003)
Teacher Was Wrongly Fired, Appeals Court Rules
(April 2, 2003)
March
McDonald's
Discriminated Against Worker Over Port Wine Stain, EEOC Claims (March 11,
2003)
Hason Case Dropped.
Hason Not Pleased. (March 10, 2003)
Waste Management Company To Pay Former
Employee Over Discrimination (March 7, 2003)
California Drops ADA Challenge (March 5,
2003)
February
State Medical
Board May Drop ADA Fight (Feb. 26, 2003)
HHS Gives $2.5 Million To Five States For
Employment Supports (Feb. 24, 2003)
Feds Issue Fact Sheet On Teleworking As
ADA Accommodation (Feb. 6, 2003)
Executive Spent Sheltered Workshop Money
On Personal Goodies, Auditor Says (Feb. 6, 2003)
"People With Disabilities Embrace
Entrepreneurship" (Feb. 5, 2003)
"Least Productive" Sheltered Workers To
Be Rejected (Feb. 3, 2003)
January
Target Pays
Current Worker To Settle Disability Discrimination Suit (Jan. 24,
2003)
Legal Groups Ask For
Advocates To Act On ADA Case (Jan. 24, 2003)
"Year of Disabled People" Needs To
Focus On Abilities (Jan. 22, 2003)
Teacher Continues Fight For Former Job (Jan.
16, 2003)
Godfrey Refuses Rehire
Offer (Jan. 10, 2003)
Worker Gets
Job Offered Back After Unfair Firing (Jan. 9, 2003)
Company Pulled Job Offer Over Disability,
EEOC Claims (Jan. 9, 2003)
Parents Try To Break County Line Barrier
(Jan. 7, 2003)
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2002
December
Janitor
Claims Employer Treated Him Unfairly (Dec. 18, 2002)
Ivers Gets Six Months For Abusing
Workshop Employee (Dec. 11, 2002)
Former Soviet Citizen Honored As
Outstanding Defense Department Worker (Dec. 10, 2002)
Employers Use Health And Safety Excuses To
Discriminate Against Workers With Disabilities (Dec. 9, 2002)
Fire Brigade Sings Praises Of Rookie
Teammate (Dec. 9, 2002)
NCD
Report: 1990 Congress Defined Disability More Broadly Than Supreme Court (Dec.
18, 2002)
"How Emma Managed To
Get In On The Act" (Dec. 5, 2002)
November
Putin Hears
Concerns From Disability Groups, Orders Government To Make Changes (Nov. 29,
2002)
Supreme Court Agrees To
Hear California ADA Employment Case (Nov. 19, 2002)
Erstad Honored By New Coworkers And Employer
(Nov. 13, 2002)
October
Workshop
Trainer Finally Convicted Of Abusing Worker (October 29, 2002)
High Court To Clarify ADA "Grey Area"
(October 1, 2002)
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