Equal Employment of Persons with Disabilities

Equal Employment of Persons with Disabilities
Author: John Parry
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Discrimination against people with disabilities
ISBN: 9781616329181

This book provides employers with sound business reasons for hiring and retaining persons with disabilities, along with specific recommendations on integrating them into the workplace. It covers four legal perspectives and provides employers, and those lawyers who represent employers, with a comprehensive understanding of the basic legal obligations to job applicants and employees who have disabilities and a disability diversity blueprint that employers may adapt to implement disability diversity programs.

Americans with Disabilities Act

Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher:
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1990
Genre: Discrimination against people with disabilities
ISBN:

Protecting the Rights of People with Autism in the Fields of Education and Employment

Protecting the Rights of People with Autism in the Fields of Education and Employment
Author: Valentina Della Fina
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2015-03-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3319137913

Fundamental rights for all people with disabilities, education and employment are key for the inclusion of people with autism. They play as facilitators for the social inclusion of persons with autism and as multipliers for their enjoyment of other fundamental rights. After outlining the international and European dimensions of the legal protection of the rights to education and employment of people with autism, the book provides an in-depth analysis of domestic legislative, judicial and administrative practice of the EU Member States in these fields. Each chapter identifies the good practices on inclusive education and employment of people with autism consistent with principles and obligations enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Articles 24 and 27). The book contains the scientific results of the European Project “Promoting equal rights of people with autism in the field of employment and education” aimed at supporting the implementation of the UN Convention in the fields of inclusive education and employment.

Achieving Equal Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities Through Legislation

Achieving Equal Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities Through Legislation
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: teNeues
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789221164272

Pautas dirigidas a políticos y legisladores, con el propósito de mejorar la eficacia de las legislaciones nacionales orientadas a la formación y el empleo de las personas discapacitadas. Se hace especial hincapié en la legislación contra la discriminación y en las leyes que establecen cuotas.

Promoting equality and non-discrimination for persons with disabilities

Promoting equality and non-discrimination for persons with disabilities
Author: Waddington, Lisa
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Equality and non-discrimination: A core principle of all human rights and fundamental freedoms. Ensuring equal opportunities for persons with disabilities is an important facilitator of participation and inclusion in society. Both the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and the Council of Europe Disability Strategy 2017-2023 address equality and equalisation of opportunities for persons with disabilities. Article 5 of the UNCPRD requires States to adopt positive measures aimed at ensuring equality across the substantive rights in the Convention. The Council of Europe Disability Strategy aims at guiding and supporting the activities of Council of Europe member States in their implementation of the UNCRPD and Council of Europe standards regarding disability, and similarly addresses equality and non-discrimination. The overall goal of this study is to analyse the obligations contained in the UNCRPD regarding equality and non-discrimination, and to provide examples of good national practices regarding equality and non-discrimination.

Discrimination, Copyright and Equality

Discrimination, Copyright and Equality
Author: Paul Harpur
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2017-04-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108210570

While equality laws operate to enable access to information, these laws have limited power over the overriding impact of market forces and copyright laws that focus on restricting access to information. Technology now creates opportunities for everyone in the world, regardless of their abilities or disabilities, to be able to access the written word – yet the print disabled are denied reading equality, and have their access to information limited by laws protecting the mainstream use and consumption of information. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the World Intellectual Property Organization's Marrakesh Treaty have swept in a new legal paradigm. This book contributes to disability rights scholarship, and builds on ideas of digital equality and rights to access in its analysis of domestic disability anti-discrimination, civil rights, human rights, constitutional rights, copyright and other equality measures that promote and hinder reading equality.

2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design

2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design
Author: Department Justice
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-10-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781500783945

(a) Design and construction. (1) Each facility or part of a facility constructed by, on behalf of, or for the use of a public entity shall be designed and constructed in such manner that the facility or part of the facility is readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities, if the construction was commenced after January 26, 1992. (2) Exception for structural impracticability. (i) Full compliance with the requirements of this section is not required where a public entity can demonstrate that it is structurally impracticable to meet the requirements. Full compliance will be considered structurally impracticable only in those rare circumstances when the unique characteristics of terrain prevent the incorporation of accessibility features. (ii) If full compliance with this section would be structurally impracticable, compliance with this section is required to the extent that it is not structurally impracticable. In that case, any portion of the facility that can be made accessible shall be made accessible to the extent that it is not structurally impracticable. (iii) If providing accessibility in conformance with this section to individuals with certain disabilities (e.g., those who use wheelchairs) would be structurally impracticable, accessibility shall nonetheless be ensured to persons with other types of disabilities, (e.g., those who use crutches or who have sight, hearing, or mental impairments) in accordance with this section.

Sharing the Dream

Sharing the Dream
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2000
Genre: Discrimination against people with disabilities
ISBN:

This report is based on the public hearing on the Americans with Disabilities Act which the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held on November 12-13, 1998 to "investigate how the ADA was accomplishing its objectives of ensuring equality, independence, and freedom for people with disabilities"--P iii