Should an employee's disability prompt special treatment? Ask Johnny

The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination. Once an employee discloses a disability, the expectation is ...
Finance & Commerce

Hiring people with disabilities can benefit workplace culture

Editor’s note: This article, distributed by The Associated Press, was originally published on The Conversation website. The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and ...
Princeton University

Workplace Disability Inclusion: Research Across the Employment Process to Date and Future Challenges

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 ...
AOL

Workplace disability inclusion has a big race problem

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 ...
CNBC

Disclosing a disability in the workplace, as employers focus on creating a culture of inclusion

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 ...
Business Wire

Avangrid Recognized as “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” by Leading Global Nonprofit

ORANGE, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avangrid, Inc., a leading energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, today announced it has again been recognized as “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion ...
Forbes

How The Responsible Use Of AI Can Supercharge Disability Inclusion At Your Company

Since the beginning of the year, artificial intelligence has been dominating the headlines with the unveiling of OpenAI’s advanced generative AI chatbot ChatGPT and the potential it holds for ...
Forbes

6 Things Disabled People Can Do To Prepare For Disability Discrimination

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 ...
New York Post

Majority of those with disabilities say their career options are limited: poll

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 ...
Nature

Work Disability and Sickness Absence

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 ...
Iowa Public Radio

Disability advocates push for changes to income and asset caps for Medicaid recipients

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.

True equality at the workplace only when disability rights are core part of CSR: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court mandated Coal India to hire a disabled woman as a management trainee, emphasizing disability rights as vital to corporate social responsibility.