Long COVID and Physical Reductionism
Long COVID plaintiffs seeking disability anti-discrimination law protections have been met with suspicion and demands for evidence.
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Read more: Providing Clean Air in Indoor Spaces: Moving Beyond Accommodations Towards Barrier Removal Providing Clean Air in Indoor Spaces: Moving Beyond Accommodations Towards Barrier Removal
Framing unclean air as a barrier in the built environment may help secure the benefit of indoor air quality standards.
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Read more: Re-Imagining Work in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Arendtian Lens Re-Imagining Work in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Arendtian Lens
The ‘needs’ of people who find themselves confronting disability and illness should not be marginalized, as they are simply modes of the human condition.
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Read more: Workplace Accommodations in a Post-COVID Era Workplace Accommodations in a Post-COVID Era
As more of the workforce returns to the office, some employers are pushing back on the increased accommodations realized during the pandemic.
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Read more: Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity
People with physical impairments can be enabled or disabled by the world around them.
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Read more: Employers Should Bear Responsibility for Making Remote Work Environments Accessible 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.
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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: 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: 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.
