Employers Should Bear Responsibility for Making Remote Work Environments Accessible
Employers must take steps to ensure that remote work accommodations are not made at the expense of the employee.
Disability
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Read more: Struggles Over Care Will Shape the Future of Work Struggles Over Care Will Shape the Future of Work
The future of work and of aging will be shaped by struggles over care from both giving and receiving ends, perhaps against those profiting in between.
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Read more: Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the shortcomings of our current disability laws and policies, particularly those related to economic insecurity.
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Read more: NFIB v. OSHA and Its Contradiction with the GOP’s Disability Employment Agenda NFIB v. OSHA and Its Contradiction with the GOP’s Disability Employment Agenda
Conservative jurisprudence during the pandemic is at odds with the goal of full, in-person employment.
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Read more: Blue Booking Long COVID: Accounting for Long-Term COVID-19 Complications in Social Security Disability Benefits Evaluations Blue Booking Long COVID: Accounting for Long-Term COVID-19 Complications in Social Security Disability Benefits Evaluations
The Social Security Administration should amend the Blue Book to include Long COVID in its determination of disability benefits.
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Read more: Our New Remote Workplace Culture Creates Opportunities for Disabled Employees Our New Remote Workplace Culture Creates Opportunities for Disabled Employees
This shift in our workplace culture presents employment opportunities for disabled people that they may not have had in the past.
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Read more: Who ‘Deserves’ Health, Who ‘Deserves’ Freedom? A Recurrent Divide in SCOTUS Vaccine Mandate Cases Who ‘Deserves’ Health, Who ‘Deserves’ Freedom? A Recurrent Divide in SCOTUS Vaccine Mandate Cases
Many occupational risks, after all, can be framed as universal. If those protections, too, fall, the most vulnerable will, as always, be most vulnerable.
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Read more: Negotiating Masks in the Workplace: When the ADA Does and Does Not Apply Negotiating Masks in the Workplace: When the ADA Does and Does Not Apply
Workplaces are, by and large, no longer safe for employees who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19.
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Read more: Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID
This symposium aims to address the critical junctures of health, disability, and work at the heart of the domestic policy response to COVID-19.
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Read more: Managing Cognitive Decline Concerns in the Workplace Managing Cognitive Decline Concerns in the Workplace
As the American population ages, employers must contend with the growing challenge of cognitive decline in the workplace.
