Archive for the ‘Contract & Temp Workers’ Category

July 11th, 2012

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Community Inclusion Programs Strive for Viability in Minnesota

Last weekend’s edition of the Twin Cities Pioneer Press featured two stories by reporter Bob Shaw examining employment opportunities for people with disabilities in the state of Minnesota. Together with accompanying galleries from staff photographers John Doman and Jean Pieri, each article provides a level of nuance not often found in daily newspaper coverage of [...]

July 6th, 2012

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Affordable Care Act Expands Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities

It’s been a little more than a week now since the United State Supreme Court ruled that the majority of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (referred to as ACA) was constitutionally allowable. People with disabilities will be impacted by the decision as much as any single group of individuals; and, by and large, [...]

June 25th, 2012

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ODEP Publishes Strategies for Inclusion of People With Disabilities in Workplace

While organizations like ATI help people with disabilities with career training and contract labor opportunities, a business owner needs to have an open and inclusive workplace in order to ensure the employment of these individuals is successful. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) just published a guide to help employers [...]

June 20th, 2012

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CEOs Share Stories About Value of Employing People With Disabilities

Executives from nearly 20 major U.S. companies gathered with government officials earlier this month for what is being called the “first-ever CEO Summit focused on employment with disabilities,” according to a June 18 press release issued by Walgreens, which hosted the conference at its facility in Windsor, Connecticut. Best Buy, IBM, Proctor & Gamble, UPS, [...]

June 15th, 2012

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Positive Attitudes Key to Job Success for People With Disabilities

Right now, across the nation, there are probably thousands of employees, maybe even more, uttering “Thank God It’s Friday,” or “TGIF,” or just thinking and talking about their weekend plans instead of keeping their minds on the tasks of their occupation. Job dissatisfaction is a common ailment; temporary for some workers, chronic for others. It [...]

June 14th, 2012

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Flag Day an Opportunity to Reflect on Outsourcing to Americans

Flag Day is one of our nation’s more enigmatic observances. While the resolution passed by the Second Continental Congress some 235 years ago on this day makes clear that the United State of America shall be represented by 13 alternating red and white stripes and a cluster of white stars on a blue fields, there [...]

June 8th, 2012

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Service Centers for People With Disabilities Work to Update Perceptions

People with disabilities are in a continual struggle against being incorrectly or unfairly labeled. Advocates have made progress toward eliminating hurtful and derogatory terms thanks to the “End the R-Word” campaign and other awareness-building measures. The Kansas University Research and Training Center on Independent Living’s “Guidelines for Reporting and Writing about People with Disabilities” (PDF) [...]

June 7th, 2012

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Govt. Must Improve Workplace Accommodation for People With Disabilities, Says GAO Report

Part of what made last week’s jobs report so bleak was the slowdown in growth across key economic sectors. But while private businesses in some industries still managed to add jobs, the public sector actually lost 13,000 jobs in the month of May, according to Tami Luhby’s report for CNNMoney. Two years ago, President Obama [...]

June 6th, 2012

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Latest Jobs Report Brings More Calls to End Outsourcing

The U.S. economy could not sustain the optimistic trend from last month’s job report, when the unemployment rate for people with disabilities dropped by nearly 3%. As Michelle Diament of Disability Scoop reported last Friday, 12.9% of Americans with disabilities were without jobs in the month of May, according the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; [...]

May 21st, 2012

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New Product Puts People With Disabilities to Work in Wyoming

Kicking off the week is a wire story that will hopefully get picked up by media outlets looking to shine a light on employment opportunities for people disabilities. And by “wire story” I don’t only mean a release put out by PRWeb, but also a story about wires and what to do about them. The [...]

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