scholarly journals Living on‐campus during COVID‐19: Prepare for reasonable accommodations requests

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Author(s):  
Iván Resendiz Gutierrez ◽  
Eden Vasquez
Keyword(s):  
Reasonable Accommodations

Estimation of Abuse by Teachers in Special Needs Schools in Japan

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-119
Author(s):  
Toshihiro Horiguchi ◽  
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Kenji Takanashi ◽  
Shoichi Sato ◽  
Naoki Sone
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Incidence Rate ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Reasonable Accommodations ◽  
Prevention Act ◽  
Inspection Systems ◽  
Government Data ◽  
Physical Maltreatment

Children with disabilities are at high risk of being abused at school by their teachers. Based on legislation in Japan, the authors assessed the implementation of measures to prevent abuse and reasonable accommodations (arrangements) available at special needs schools in Japan. Government data has concentrated only on physical maltreatment by teachers; thus, we also collected grievances from parents to estimate the prevalence rate of abuse at special education settings. Of the 1,077 schools that were sent questionnaires, 333 completed them. Educational programmes for staff were the most common measure employed to prevent abuse. Various forms of support, including communication with internet-communication technology, were provided in relation to reasonable accommodations. After the implementation of the abuse prevention act for persons with disabilities, 14 (4.20%) schools reported grievances from parents claiming that their child had been bullied by teachers. Because Japan does not have educational inspection systems, such as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, we assumed the incidence rate. Provided that all the grievances were related to abuse, the incidence rate was 0.02–0.05% (95% CI).

scholarly journals The influence of collective employment relations on work accommodation: case studies in Estonia, Hungary and Poland

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Märt Masso ◽  
Deborah Foster ◽  
Liina Osila ◽  
Balázs Bábel ◽  
Jan Czarzasty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Reasonable Accommodations ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Disabled Employees ◽  
Work Accommodation ◽  
Work Accommodations

Work accommodations are generally understood to refer to individual solutions for older and disabled employees that have been tailored to their specific situation within a workplace. This article, however, argues that there is potential for collective employment relations to motivate and enable social partners to develop a role in implementing reasonable accommodations and supporting older and disabled employees in the labour market. Focusing on industrial relations and work accommodation systems in Estonia, Poland and Hungary, the potential role that social partners could play in creating more inclusive workplaces is explored. This is done by reference to the findings from an action research project that brought together social partners to discuss ways in which practices in providing work accommodations could help better to integrate underutilised sources of labour in these three countries. The industrial relations regimes in the three countries have potentially enabling characteristics that could facilitate work accommodations. Current knowledge of the work accommodation process and the integration of this issue into the collective employment relations agenda, however, needs further improvement.

Roads to Success: The Career Attainment Experiences of Lawyers With Visual Impairments in South Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 152342232110545
Author(s):  
Chang-Kyu Kwon ◽  
Soonok An
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Self Advocacy ◽  
Hiring Managers ◽  
Career Attainment ◽  
Reasonable Accommodations ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Specific Disability

Problem: Disability issues have long been a topic at the margins of HRD research and have rarely been examined outside the United States context or with a focus on a specific disability type. Additionally, largely due to a homogeneous national culture, people with disabilities in South Korea experience unique barriers in career development. Solution: The authors report the findings of a multiple case study on the career attainment experiences of lawyers with visual impairments in South Korea. Data analyzed from interviews with five participants showed that various individual (perseverance, identity as a person with a visual impairment, self-advocacy, and strategic mindset) and social (family and peer support, reasonable accommodation, precedent, and having a leader with a vision for inclusion) factors contributed to their career attainment. Stakeholders: The findings of this study can aid organizational leaders, hiring managers, HRD practitioners in charge of providing reasonable accommodations, and educators of people with disabilities.

Teleworking and the "Disability Divide"

2011 ◽  
pp. 2112-2134 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Bricout ◽  
Paul M.A. Baker ◽  
Andrew C. Ward ◽  
Nathan W. Moon
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
Reasonable Accommodations ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Simple Exclusion ◽  
The Impact

Much of the discourse on the digital divide focuses on issues of information disparity and accessibility, frequently in socioeconomic terms. This perspective overlooks an important aspect of the digital divide, the lack of access and missed opportunities faced by persons with disabilities, referred to here as the “disability divide.” Barriers to access and knowledgeable use of information and communication technology (ICT) represent more than simple exclusion from information to encompass social segregation and devaluation. At its most insidious, barriers to ICTs limit full community engagement in employment activities. This chapter examines the ramification of the impact of digital divide on the nature of employment and participation in the workplace, using ICT to conduct telework, and explores challenges to social policy with respect to ‘reasonable’ accommodations. In the absence of practices, structures, and policies targeting the distributive work environment, telework is much less likely to close the digital divide for persons with a disability. This suggests the need to explore and develop potential policy options to close the disability divide.

The Legislative Response to Alcoholism and Drug Addiction in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-107
Author(s):  
J. Larry Goff
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Americans With Disabilities Act ◽  
Rehabilitation Act Of 1973 ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Use ◽  
Alcohol And Drugs ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Reasonable Accommodations

The Americans With Disabilities Act was enacted in 1990 and became law on July 26, 1992. It represents the latest Congressional effort to provide protection against discrimination in the workplace to people with disabilities, giving them more access to employment opportunities for which they are qualified and which they can perform and imposing requirements on employers to help facilitate this through reasonable accommodations. The act also amended the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, extending the coverage of that earlier legislation to include more employers as covered entities as well as clarifying selected sections. For those who use or are addicted to alcohol or drugs, treatment under both acts has been uneven. The 1973 legislation was silent about these individuals except for an exclusionary provision dealing with current use vis-à-vis job performance and threats to the safety of other people and property. The Americans With Disabilities Act is more comprehensive in its approach both to individuals who use alcohol and drugs and to those who use them addictively. It has, however, still left some open questions and created some new concerns. The purpose of this article is to review the highlights of the Americans With Disabilities Act as it relates to alcohol and drug use and to explore some of the unresolved issues.

Membership Rights: The Individual Rights of Group Members

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (02) ◽  
pp. 343-364
Author(s):  
Adi Goldiner
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Moral Rights ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Group Rights ◽  
Reasonable Accommodations ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
Group Members ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Distinct Features

AbstractIndividuals often invoke the moral rights that they hold as members of certain groups or social categories. Yet, there is ambiguity in both terminology and theorizing surrounding the nature of those rights. Focusing on the paradigmatic case of disabled people’s right to reasonable accommodations, this paper develops a descriptive account of those group-related rights, as a distinct category of rights which I call ‘membership rights’. Membership rights neither fit the concept of ‘human rights’, as not all people hold them, nor are they typical ’group rights’, as they are held by members of some group as individuals, not by groups collectively. In addition, the grounding of membership rights is linked to the distinct features of group members, be it their special interests or special circumstances. Finally, the content of membership rights includes distinct entitlements and correlating duties, which are not secured by human rights, group rights, or any combination thereof. Recognizing the distinct features of membership rights may have practical implications by strengthening efforts to secure legal protection to membership rights. It also invites further theoretical inquiry, for example, towards identifying other specific rights that fit into this category.

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