Disability News
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Lawmakers Call For Full Funding of IDEA
Disability Scoop
With a new legislative proposal, members of Congress are reviving a plan to boost federal spending on special education.
Under a bill introduced this month in the U.S. House of Representatives that has bipartisan support, federal funding for the Individuals...
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Settlement Agreement: Richland County Board of Elections and Voter Registration
Access Denied: Trial on Website Accessibility Claims Results in Decision for Disabled Individual
JD Supra
On Tuesday, a federal district court in Florida issued an order in the first known trial involving accessibility to a public accommodation’s...
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Settlement Agreement: U.S. v. New York
Kentucky Fried Chicken Sued By EEOC For Disability Discrimination
Hester Foods, Inc., the operator of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant franchise in Dublin, Ga., violated federal law by discriminating against an employee because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
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Is your company's website accessible to the disabled? You'd better hope so
Los Angeles Times
The Americans With Disabilities Act produced tangible benefits. Signed into law by President George H. W. Bush in 1990, the ADA banned employment discrimination against the disabled and eliminated unnecessary physical barriers to...
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CCH
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For five years, Jerry, a factory worker with an intellectual disability, operated a cutting tool by hand until the plant replaced the tool with a more complex automated...
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Employers need an action plan for handling disability leave
Employee Benefit Adviser
Going on disability leave can put financial strains on both the employer and the employee. Should the employee go on this form of work absence, they are only granted a certain percentage of their overall pay during...