In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently ruled in SEKRI, Inc. v. U.S., No. 21-1936 (May 13, 2022), that a non-profit agency that was the sole mandatory ...
According to census estimates, there are 20 million people with disabilities who are unemployed in the United States, but desire employment. Twenty million. It’s an outrageous number, particularly ...
This content is sponsored by Melwood. In an ideal world, America’s workforce would be representative of its population – diverse in background, race, ethnicity, gender, disability, experience and ...
October marks National Disability Employment Awareness Month, celebrating the contributions of America’s workers with disabilities and emphasizing supportive, inclusive employment policies and ...
Last month, the National Council on Disability sent shockwaves through the disability rights community when it called for the elimination of the AbilityOne Program, which creates jobs for more than 45 ...
The Technology Modernization Fund will provide the U.S. AbilityOne Commission with $1.8 million in project funding to update its Procurement List Information Management System software. The software ...
The funding will help to improve the software security of the commission—the largest employer of persons who are blind or have significant disabilities—while bringing the software into a cloud ...
A massive program that puts people with disabilities to work through federal government contracts across the country plans to no longer allow workers to be paid less than minimum wage. The U.S.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The process by which the U.S. Navy supplies the stores on its ships could soon change. Right now, dozens of businesses work to supply more than 6,000 items to the Navy’s Ships ...
A major federal program that facilitates jobs for people with disabilities working on government contracts will soon no longer allow them to be paid less than minimum wage. Under a rule finalized this ...
Didlake, a nonprofit rehabilitative services organization and an AbilityOne® Program participating agency, announces that Chief Executive Officer Paul Gravley has been appointed to serve a one-year ...