Affirmative Action for Individuals With Disabilities in Federal ...

Questions & Answers: The EEOC's Final Rule on Affirmative Action ...

Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act is a federal civil rights law that prohibits federal agencies from discriminating against job applicants ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) is issuing its final rule to amend the regulations that require federal ...

Disability | U.S. Department of Labor

Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating against and requires affirmative action for ...

Affirmative Action and People with Disabilities

Affirmative action means inclusion, not exclusion. Affirmative action does not mean quotas and is not mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Why ...

Affirmative Action - U.S. Department of Labor

For federal contractors and subcontractors, affirmative action must be taken by covered employers to recruit and advance qualified minorities, women, ...

Procedures for Providing Personal Assistance Services for ...

On January 3, 2017, the EEOC published a Final Rule on Affirmative Action for Individuals with Disabilities in Federal Employment. Section 501 of the ...

Giving Hiring Preference to People with Disabilities

Favoring an individual with a disability over a non-disabled individual for purposes of affirmative action in hiring or advancement is not unlawful disparate ...

Affirmative Action Plan for People with Disabilities

Affirmative Action Plan for People with Disabilities ... EEOC regulations (29 C.F.R. § 1614.203(e)) and MD-715 require agencies to describe how their affirmative ...

Guide to Disability Rights Laws | ADA.gov

Section 501 requires affirmative action and nondiscrimination in employment by Federal agencies of the executive branch. To obtain more information or to file a ...

Affirmative Action Plan for Employment of Persons with Disabilities

The FRA will ensure that qualified persons with disabilities, including Federal employees who become disabled after appointment, have equitable ...

Equal Opportunity versus Affirmative Action

Title I explicitly prohibits employers from “discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, hiring, firing, ...

Affirmative Action for Individuals With Disabilities in the Federal ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC" or "Commission") proposes to amend its regulations requiring the federal government to ...

Affirmative Action and Disability: What Can Employers Ask?

The employer is undertaking affirmative action because of a federal, state, or local law (including a veterans' preference law) that requires affirmative action ...

Affirmative Action Plan for People With Disabilities - State Department

Pursuant to 29 CFR 1614.203(e)(2), each agency shall make an affirmative action plan for the hiring, placement, and advancement of individuals ...

Pitfalls for Affirmative Action for Individuals with Disabilities

The EEOC then issued a rule on January 3, 2017 that agencies of the federal government must adopt employment goals for individuals with ...

EEOC Rule on Affirmative Action for Individuals With Disabilities in ...

According to the EEOC news release, the regulations “set goals for federal agency workforces of 12% representation for individuals with ...

Final rule requires affirmative action for disabilities in federal workforce

A final rule from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requires federal agencies to increase their workforce to include more people ...

How will the ending of affirmative action affect people with disabilities?

People with a disability are still protected from discrimination based upon their disability under the law, including, but not limited to, the ...

Affirmative Action Policy on the Employment of Individuals with ...

Opposing any act or practice made unlawful by the Act or any other Federal, state or local law requiring equal opportunity for disabled persons;; Exercising any ...

Affirmative Action Plan for the Recruitment, Hiring, Advancement ...

To capture agencies' affirmative action plan for persons with disabilities and persons with targeted disabilities, EEOC regulations require ...