well unless your injury is bleeding red blood a
disabled person can certainly not get workers comp for
an injury while working for the feds.  

--- "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Thought there'd be interest in these articles re
> employment for people with
> disabilities by the Federal Government.
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Anne Sommers - JFA Moderator
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> *Sent:* Friday, January 18, 2008 12:18 PM
> *To:* Kendall David Corbett
> *Subject:* Federal Gov't Increasingly Unwelcome
> Place for Disabled
> 
> 
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> 
> Federal Government Increasingly Unwelcome Place for
> Disabled
> 
> *JFA Daily*
> 
> 1/18/08
> 
> 
> 
> Today in JFA:
> 
> *EEOC Says Federal Government Increasingly Unwelcome
> Workplace for People
> with
>
Disabilities<http://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&tab=wm#1178e5b5c3a58991_LETTER.BLOCK4>
> *
> 
> *A Troublesome Decline in Disability
>
Hiring<http://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&tab=wm#1178e5b5c3a58991_LETTER.BLOCK5>
> *
> 
> *Hearing Rescheduled for ADA
>
Restoration<http://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&tab=wm#1178e5b5c3a58991_LETTER.BLOCK11>
> *
> 
> *Disability Employment Policy
>
Forum<http://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&tab=wm#1178e5b5c3a58991_LETTER.BLOCK10>
> *
> 
> 
> 
> *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.
> 
> ...Read the rest of this
>
*article<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019BTn_d8cJUNb_RGjhnbYtNhvEDiMc41bLuh6er-A5hjg6Lm2smaarwYHhmn5c7q2bmRqBKNsy7h1YBHfxcy4YfBwu2N5RHjcJCv8UJHaKg9HwIrx0xStX2agsQjanGHh5QBiAK6C8VWz1yZ14spsQA==>
> *.
> 
> 
> 
> *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.
> 
> 
> ...Read the rest of this
>
*article<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019BTn_d8cJUONbXsMDzpkGu_2QbOY8pfSQxokFlDb-jCayrpBQFc9piyBBWqcxxYmLgN_w47s1xlFxah_DFkKZb8iwgjPHZU12l1OVC3CdsMnhdupcsb59uSJ-JWSC9Sw2sjWmj0TZKuma4ABDEbFxA==>
> *.
> 
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