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Amazon makes it harder for disabled employees to work from home
By Spencer Soper Nov. 15, 2024 at 3:13 pm Amazon is making it harder for disabled employees to get permission to work from home, underscoring the tech giant’s determination to get its corporate workforce back to the office five days a week. The company recently told employees with disabilities that it was implementing a more rigorous vetting…
Biden moves to end subminimum wages for people with disabilities
By Jacqueline Alemany Updated December 3, 2024 The Biden administration is moving to phase out a Depression-era program that allows some employers to pay disabled workers far less than minimum wage, fulfilling one of President Joe Biden’s campaign promises and triggering what will probably become a fierce legal and political battle. The decision is the culmination of…
Illinois could phase out subminimum wage for disabled workers. Could it cost some their jobs?
By Sara Machi November 19, 2024 / 4:28 PM CST / CBS Chicago To watch video report, Click Here. CHICAGO (CBS) — A proposed change in Illinois law would eliminate the subminimum wage for workers with disabilities, but some fear it could leave the state’s most vulnerable out of work altogether. In the Avenues to Independence warehouse in…
He was stuck in a hospital for 8 months. How states can fail people with disabilities
By Sam Whitehead November 21, 2024 11:39 AM ET ATLANTA — Lloyd Mills was tired of being stuck in a small, drab hospital room. On a rainy mid-September morning, a small TV attached to a mostly blank white wall played silently. There was nothing in the space to cheer it up — no cards, no flowers.…
Chicago removes largest homeless encampment, relocates tent residents into apartments and shelters: report
‘Unlike homeless removals of Chicago’s past, this effort was focused on providing apartments to most of the tent dwellers,’ The Chicago Sun Times reported. By Joshua Q. Nelson Published December 8, 2024 5:00am EST Chicago officials reportedly cleared the largest homeless encampment in the city after relocating some residents into apartments and shelter beds. According to the Chicago…
Emboldened ‘manosphere’ accelerates threats and demeaning language toward women after US election
By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Updated 10:10 AM CST, November 30, 2024 CHICAGO (AP) — In the days after the presidential election, Sadie Perez began carrying pepper spray with her around campus. Her mom also ordered her and her sister a self-defense kit that included keychain spikes, a hidden knife key and a personal alarm. It’s a response…
New Taliban decree bans women from medical training: ‘devastating decision’
Latest decree said to ban women from nursing and midwifery By Chris Massaro Published December 9, 2024 10:38am EST The Taliban has reportedly banned women in Afghanistan from attending nursing and midwifery classes in yet another blow to women’s rights since the Taliban takeover. The latest directive closes one of the last remaining avenues women had to get an…
With a Trump Presidency, Grave Threats to Reproductive Freedoms Expected
On both the domestic and international fronts, an anti-rights agenda risks progress made on gender equality, reproductive rights, and access to health care. Nov 6th, 2024 While the country has yet to recover from the widespread damage to reproductive rights and access caused by the first Trump administration, it faces new threats under a second…
Ohio’s six-week abortion ban permanently struck down as judge upholds referendum
“The State of Ohio seeks not to uphold the constitutional protection of abortion rights, but to diminish and limit it,” Judge Christian Jenkins wrote. Ryan Adamczeski October 25 2024 12:02 PM EST An Ohio judge has struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban, upholding a referendum voters approved last year that protected the right to legally make one’s own…