The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination. Once an employee discloses a disability, the expectation is ...

According to the United States Department of Labor (DOL), 22.7% of People with Disabilities (PWDs) are employed, compared to 65.6% of non-disabled people. As a result, PWDs are 2X more likely than non ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, Wisc. (KNWA/KFTA) — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has accused Walmart of disability discrimination in a lawsuit filed last month in Wisconsin. The EEOC said in a ...

Sanju Pal, an NRI from Bengal, suffers from endometriosis. In 2019, she was dismissed as manager for alleged underperformance ...

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 ...

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 ...

In March, a comprehensive settlement agreement was reached in a lawsuit filed by Disability Rights Pennsylvania (DRP) against the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services over claims of abusive ...

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities often face difficulty accessing needed organ transplants, but now a bill is moving through Congress that aims to address that disparity. The U.S ...

Disability-based discrimination was reported by 12.4% of medical students with disabilities in the US, with the highest rates being reported by those with chronic illnesses and multiple disabilities.

As part of President Donald Trump’s attempt to remake the federal workforce, several directives have been issued to terminate recently hired employees and gut entire agencies. Many federal workers ...

The Supreme Court mandated Coal India to hire a disabled woman as a management trainee, emphasizing disability rights as vital to corporate social responsibility.