Complaints of disability discrimination in the nation’s schools are at their highest level in six years, the U.S. Department of Education says. A newly released annual report shows that the agency’s ...
The nation’s largest movie theater chain illegally forced out an employee with cerebral palsy after two decades on the job, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says. In a lawsuit filed this ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Only some 40 percent of disabled people are employed. But even that low figure is ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON − For years, Gina and Aaron Tharpe argued that a local school district hadn't done enough to accommodate their daughter, who has a rare form of epilepsy and severe cognitive impairment. An ...
David Roy does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Learn details about a disability discrimination case against the federal agency that operates a Native American boarding school in Salem. The complaint was filed in 2021 by a special ed teacher with ...
Kelsey Chapman receives research funding from the Queensland Government. She is a member of the Metro South Health Disability Community Advisory Committee and Health Translation Queensland. Elizabeth ...
BOTTOM LINE: Where an administrative law judge sufficiently assessed an applicant’s capacity to work when it denied her application for disability benefits, that decision was affirmed. CASE: Drumgold ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that private citizens have no ...
British workers who are sensitive to rejection can sue for disability discrimination, according to a new tribunal judgment. Employees in the UK can sue for discrimination under employment law if they ...