Diversity Management, News and Updates
A restaurant owner in Anchorage, Alaska, has “fired” one of her customers following his disrespect and mistreatment of an employee who has autism. P.J. Gialopsos, owner of Little Italy Restaurante, said that an irate customer called the restaurant last month complaining about the service of its delivery drivers. Gialopsos’s daughter,…
Last weekend, Donald Trump added people with disabilities to his ever-growing list of those he has bashed since launching his presidential campaign in June. His most recent target, Serge Kovaleski, is a reporter who has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition that limits the movement of his joints. The real estate developer-turned-GOP…
Employment of people with disabilities by the U.S. federal government hit a record high last year, according to the Office of Personnel Management, which submitted its report to President Barack Obama last month. The total number of permanent federal employees with disabilities increased from 234,395 in 2013, to 247,608 in…
I was very pleased to see some proactive changes at Newark airport this week. The Port Authority must have read my column. It’s not quite there yet, but positive change should be recognized. Thank you. In the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, I also want to thank…
While television executives seemed to make a conscious effort over the past few years to create characters who, by definition, have some kind of disability, the number of people with disabilities on TV in 2015 actually went down. According to a report by GLAAD, the percentage of people on TV…
The following is a response from a DiversityInc reader on our “7 Things NEVER to Say to People With Disabilities” article. Hi, my name is Kevin, I’m a twenty four year old male with cerebral palsy. Over the many years, I’ve always tried to surpass my disability, because I was…
A new study concluded that employers are still discriminating against job applicants who have a disclosed disability. The Study For the study, which was conducted by Rutgers and Syracuse, researchers sent cover letters and rsums to various accounting companies for just over 6,000 jobs in the accounting field. The only…
My Amtrak column had some positive benefits: I’ve noted more attention to detail by the train crew to the seat reserved for people with disabilities, and there is now a paper reminder taped to the one seat reserved for people with disabilities when I ride the all-reserved Acela to D.C.,…
The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into SourceAmerica and the AbilityOne program it oversees. The news comes just days after the 25-year anniversary of the signing of the ADA. SourceAmerica is a national nonprofit that was established to oversee and implement AbilityOne, which was created in 1938 and…
On July 26, 1990, when former President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans With Disabilities Act into law, it was heralded as the beginning of a new era of improved access and employment for people with disabilities. As the nation celebrates this landmark civil-rights legislation impacting an estimated 56 million…
