By Minh N. Vu
Seyfarth Synopsis: UC Berkeley and the DOJ resolve an 8-year investigation with a comprehensive Consent Decree that requires UC Berkeley to make virtually all the content on its online platforms accessible to people with disabilities within three years and adopt comprehensive policies and procedures to ensure accessible online content.
After eight years, the U.S. Department
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DOL’s 2023 Priorities, Per Labor Secretary Marty Walsh. Additional personnel topped Labor Secretary Marty Walsh’s wish list for 2023 as he laid out next year’s proposed budget at a hearing in front of the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. During the hearing, Secretary Walsh was candid: “To be completely honest, I need more
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By Erin Dougherty Foley and Craig B. Simonsen
Seyfarth Synopsis: These new regulations require federal agencies to be “model employers” of individuals with disabilities. As such, they now must take specific steps that are “reasonably designed” to gradually increase the number of employees who have a disability.
We had blogged previously about the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Advance Notice
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By Craig B. Simonsen and Kristina M. Launey
This blog, as the “ADA Title III” name indicates, is primarily about a business’s obligation to individuals with disabilities who may access its goods, services, benefits, and accommodations, rather than employees with disabilities. However, we also frequently receive questions from entities that are subject to Title III about their obligations to provide
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By Tracy M. Billows and Craig B. Simonsen
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to invite the public to comment on how it should amend its regulations implementing Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to clarify the federal government’s obligation to be a model employer of individuals with disabilities.
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