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Seeking Accommodations for Epilepsy as a Disability in the Workplace

It can sometimes feel delicate to balance being a dedicated employee and prioritizing your health. It’s natural to have concerns about how coworkers might react to seizures, how to ask for accommodations without feeling burdensome, and questions about the protections and rights you have in the workplace. Understanding Epilepsy Epilepsy is an often misunderstood neurological [...]

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Woman reading law books

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How the Americans With Disabilities Act Led Me to My Future Career

I’ve never known life without the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). I was born with cerebral palsy five years after the ADA was passed, and to say I took the Act for granted is a massive understatement. It wasn’t until I started searching for jobs post-college that I realized just how many rights the ADA [...]

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Is Long COVID-19 Considered a Disability Under the Americans with Disabilities Act?

Is Long COVID-19 Considered a Disability Under the Americans with Disabilities Act?

Angela Muir Van Etten

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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Is Long COVID-19 Considered a Disability Under the Americans with Disabilities Act?

Two years after COVID-19 was first detected, the global COVID-19 pandemic has infected more than 300 million people, claimed the lives of almost 5.5 million, and changed the lives of everyone in the world. Scientists and the public are learning more about the virus, but so much more still remains a mystery. Surprisingly, long COVID-19 [...]

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What is your experience with Reasonable Accommodations?

I first learned about EEOC rights and RA's summer of 2017, with great hope I started in applying for reasonable accommodations. So much hope!! Dashed. Crushed. My employers response absolutely shocked and demoralized me. I've yet to hear any stories of truly effective accommodation experiences. I'd love to know they are out there. At the same time, if there are not... we need to change things so that reasonable accommodations are not another inaccessible pipe dream.
#EEOC #Work #RA #reasonableaccommodations #Disability #Discrimination #Accessibility #ADA #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct

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Is it legal for my current employer to contact my previous one to ask if I received ADA accommodations for my disability?

I requested ADA acommodations for ADHD with my current employer. They questioned my need for acommodations and have been very difficult in the process. I explained that I had acommodations in my last job. However, the acommodations were provided by my immediate supervisor. She was amazing to work for, and I never had to go through a formal process to request acommodations.

My current boss called the CEO of the company and asked if I had ever requested acommodations or had any medical documentation of my disability. They said there was nothing on file, and now my current boss states that I have been untruthful. Not only was I shocked that my boss called my former employer, but I didn’t think that a former employer was allowed to release that info — it sounds like a FERPA violation at the very least.

Does anyone know the answer to this and where I could go about finding the information to back up what I’m saying? #ADHD #ADA #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct

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Samantha Bee in a white shirt and tie with Nyle DiMarco in a police uniform.

Samantha Bee in a white shirt and tie with Nyle DiMarco in a police uniform.

Elizabeth Cassidy

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Nyle DiMarco Joins Comedian Samantha Bee to Teach Police How to Interact With Deaf People

Deaf model and activist Nyle DiMarco is teaming up with comedian Samantha Bee to talk about police interactions with the deaf and hard of hearing community. DiMarco uploaded a teaser to Instagram for Wednesday night’s episode of “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee,” a satirical late-night comedy show. Bee says in the teaser that the pair [...]

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A row of bird scooters parked near a bike rack.

A row of bird scooters parked near a bike rack.

Elizabeth Cassidy

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Motor Scooter Companies, San Diego Are Violating the Americans With Disabilities Act, Lawsuit Claims

Disability Rights California has filed a lawsuit in federal court over public-use motorized scooters in San Diego. The rights group claims the scooters violate the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) because they’re often left strewn about sidewalks and other public pathways, preventing safe and easy passage for those with disabilities as required by law. The [...]

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Electronic billboard advertising Purple Tuesday

Elizabeth Cassidy

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U.K. Stores Host First 'Purple Tuesday' Disability-Friendly Shopping Initiative

Over 700 companies participated in the U.K.’s first “Purple Tuesday,” a campaign to make retailers more accessible to people with disabilities, according to The Guardian, though stores are supposed to be accessible on any day. Big box retailers such as Asda, Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s participated in the national day, which included dressing mannequins and [...]

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A blind Louisianan is alleging that McDonald's drive-thru policy violates ADA standards.

A blind Louisianan is alleging that McDonald's drive-thru policy violates ADA standards.

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Blind Man Files Lawsuit Against McDonald's Drive-Thru Policy

A lawsuit against McDonald’s is alleging that the fast-food giant’s drive-thru policies violate Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards, according to the Chicago Tribune. Plantiff Scott Magee, a resident of Louisiana who is blind, visited a McDonald’s franchise on foot one night in August 2015. Finding that the restaurant’s lobby was closed for the night, Magee sought service [...]

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A hand deposits a ballot into a voting box.

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Polling Places May Not Be Accessible, Investigation Says

NBC Washington’s News4 I-Team reported Tuesday that dozens of polling places in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia may not be accessible to voters with disabilities. Though officials at the district’s Board of Elections were formally notified about some of the problems, which include heavy doors, steep ramps, narrow doorways and broken doorbells, some issues may not be [...]