[nfbmi-talk] Fw: Employment for People with Disabilities: AnInter-Agency Enforcement Effort between the Department ofJustice and the Department of Labor

[Terry D. Eagle]

Great information and lead Derek.  Thank for passing it along.

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Hey check this out

 
Derek E Moore, M.Ed
Grand Rapids, MI 49507



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Employment for People with Disabilities:  An Inter-Agency Enforcement Effort
between the Department of Justice and the Department of Labor  
Employment for People with Disabilities:  An Inter-Agency Enforcement Effort
between the Department of Justice and the Department of Labor
Across the nation, people with disabilities are often excluded from the
middle class and from accessing real jobs in their communities.  Instead,
they are often segregated in sheltered workshops where they work alongside
only other people with disabilities and earn far less than minimum wage. 
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Civil Rights Division,  is working to
enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which ensures that
individuals with disabilities have access to the services and supports they
need to have the opportunity to work in real jobs in the community, rather
than just in segregated settings.  In June 2013, DOJ entered into an Interim
Settlement Agreement with the State of Rhode Island and the City of
Providence, resolving the kinds of violations that result in Americans with
disabilities spending their days in segregated employment.  Read the story
of Pedro, one such individual whose life has changed under the Interim
 Settlement Agreement because of his new job.
In Rhode Island, DOJ worked collaboratively with the Wage and Hour Division
of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in a first-of-its-kind enforcement
effort between the agencies to achieve relief for adults and youth with
disabilities.  Today, DOL announced that it has secured more than $250,000
in back wages for student workers with disabilities who spent their days in
a school-based sheltered workshop in Providence, where they were routinely
paid less than $2 an hour, if at all, in violation of the Fair Labor
Standards Act (FLSA).  Together, DOJ and DOL are working to ensure that,
under the ADA and FLSA, Americans with disabilities receive the protections
they are entitled to.  Read the DOL press release. 
 
Learn more about the Rhode Island interim settlement agreement.  For more
general information about the Justice Department’s ADA Olmstead enforcement
efforts, visit the Civil Rights Division’s Olmstead: Community Integration
for Everyone website.   To find out more about the ADA, call the Justice
Department’s toll-free ADA Information Line at 800-514-0301 or 800-514-0383
(TDD), or access its ADA.gov website.

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