Mine Rite Technologies to Pay $75,000 To Settle EEOC Disability Suit
PHOENIX - Mine Rite Technologies, LLC, a Buffalo, Wyo.-based manufacturing company, will pay $75,000 and provide other significant relief to settle a disability discrimination and harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
Program helps people with disabilities gain employment
The Post Star
LAKE PLACID — Annie Maher enjoys her independence. Twice a week, she takes public transportation to her job in downtown Lake Placid, where she works in the Van Heusen clothing store. Originally from Staten Island, the 42-year-old Maher receives services from Citizen Advocates Inc., a services agency that, among the many other things it does, assists people with disabilities in finding and keeping jobs they enjoy.
Jessica Dibble, the Career Visions program manager, said one aspect of the program is combating stereotypes about people with disabilities.
Dibble and her staff help people with all kinds of disabilities find their way into meaningful work. Their clients can be people who have worked their whole lives and have acquired a disability that changes their career prospects, or people with developmental disabilities or challenges to entry-level employment. Of the 80 people the agency is currently serving, 51 are employed. In the past six months, nine people have found employment through Career Visions. Between Malone and Lake Placid, 37 businesses benefit from Career Visions workers.
Does the ADA Apply in the Internet Era?
The Legal Intelligencer
When the ADA was enacted, the vast information infrastructure of the Internet that allows ready access to employment, health care, education, government services, goods and entertainment did not exist. As is not historically uncommon, technology and the law did not develop simultaneously. Despite the ubiquity of the Internet as an everyday tool for most Americans, federal courts of appeals have split on the issue of whether the protections of the ADA reach goods and services provided solely via the Internet, leaving people with disabilities without a well-settled right to equal access to the internet.
Student accuses college of disability discrimination
The Columbia Chronicle
A student alleging discrimination by the college has asked a disability law activism group for help after Columbia denied her request to keep an assistance dog and cat in her dorm room.
Lindsey Barrett requested a second animal in December 2017 after her psychiatrist recommended a dog to help alleviate her severe panic attacks.
Barrett, a sophomore business and entrepreneurship major, said she was diagnosed with depression in 2013, and anxiety was added to her diagnosis shortly after, she said. In 2017, she was diagnosed with adjustment disorder with social anxiety.
The DSM-5, or The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, defines adjustment disorder as “the presence of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to identifiable stressor(s) occurring within 3 months of the onset of the stressor(s). In addition to exposure to one or more stressors, other DSM-5 criteria for adjustment disorder must be present. One or both of these criteria include distress that is out of proportion with expected reactions to the stressor, as well as symptoms must be clinically significant—they cause marked distress and impairment in functioning.”
Adjustment disorder can come with other disorders such as anxiety, which has been Barrett’s case, and the severity of the stresses lead to her diagnosis.