Thought there'd be interest in these articles re employment for people with
disabilities by the Federal Government.
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Federal Government Increasingly Unwelcome Place for Disabled
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1/18/08
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*EEOC Says Federal Government Increasingly Unwelcome Workplace for People
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*A Troublesome Decline in Disability
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*Hearing Rescheduled for ADA
Restoration<http://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&tab=wm#1178e5b5c3a58991_LETTER.BLOCK11>
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*Disability Employment Policy
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*EEOC Says Federal Government Increasingly Unwelcome Workplace for People
with Disabilities*
From *Federal Times *(1/16):
*EEOC faults efforts to hire people with disabilities*
By Stephen Losey
The federal government is becoming an increasingly unwelcome place for
people with disabilities to work, the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission said Jan. 15.
Employment of people with disabilities hit its lowest point in 22 years in
fiscal 2006, the EEOC said. Data for 2007 is not yet available. The federal
government employed 23,490 disabled people in fiscal 2006, which is about
0.97 percent of the federal work force. At the peak in 1994, 1.24 percent of
the federal work force was disabled. At the lowest point in 1984,
about 0.96percent of the federal work force was disabled.
At the same time, harassment complaints have steadily increased since 2003.
Disabled employees filed 1,393 harassment complaints in fiscal 2003 and
filed 1,602 complaints in 2006.
What's more, most managers don't seem to understand how to accommodate
disabled people. Many agencies haven't made hiring them a priority, and an
obtuse hiring process may discourage applicants, the EEOC said in its
report.
The government is not living up to its obligations, EEOC Commissioner
Christine Griffin said.
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*A Troublesome Decline in Disability Hiring*
From *The **Washington** Post *(1/17):
*A Troublesome Decline in Disability Hiring*
By Stephen Barr
Most federal agencies are losing more employees with severe disabilities
than they are hiring, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wants
to get the government back on path as a model employer.
An EEOC management directive, which went into effect in October 2003,
requires federal agencies with more than 1,000 employees to recruit disabled
individuals and set hiring goals, but 43 percent of federal agencies have
not established such goals, the EEOC said in a report released Tuesday.
"This may account for why little progress is being realized," the report
said.
In fiscal 2006, the government had about 2.6 million permanent and temporary
workers, and 24,442 were deaf, blind, mentally retarded or had other serious
disabilities.
That year, the severely disabled represented 0.94 percent of the
government's workforce, the lowest rate in 20 years, according to the
report.
Even the overall growth in government employment did not help the
recruitment and retention of disabled employees. The government's workforce
grew by 135,732 between fiscal 1997 and 2006, a 5.48 percent increase, while
the number of employees with severe disabilities decreased by 4,229 during,
a loss of 14.75 percent.
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*Date:* Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008
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*Time:* 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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