Airline travel in 2025 is set to become more dignified for passengers with disabilities under a new Department of Transportation rule. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced enhanced protections for people with disabilities traveling on commercial...
Boston Children’s Hospital has been ordered to pay a former employee almost $1.9 million for retaliating against her for filing a gender and age discrimination lawsuit, although the court did not find sufficient evidence of discrimination. Amy Tishelman, 68, was...
Older residents in Massachusetts have been provided a legislative safety net with the recent signing of An Act to improve quality and oversight of long-term care, by Governor Maura Healey. Officials, including Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll and leaders from both the...
SafeRent, an AI screening tool used by Massachusetts landlords, will no longer use AI-powered “scores” to evaluate whether someone using housing vouchers would make a good tenant. On Wednesday, US District Judge Angel Kelley issued final approval for a roughly $2.3...
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released a report titled, “Retaining Persons with Disabilities in the Federal Workforce.” Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act protects persons with disabilities (PWD) from discrimination in federal sector...
Among the greatest beneficiaries from the rise of remote work are people with disabilities, who’ve entered the Massachusetts workforce at record levels over the past three years. Larger Employment Gains for the Disabled Percentage-point change in share of population...
The city of Boston is rolling out new guidelines for how it serves residents with disabilities. “This is a big change in our policy for the city,” said Disability Commissioner Kristen McCosh. The new guidelines suggest that city departments ask about accommodation...
United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS), will pay $150,000 and provide other relief, including offering reinstatement to a discharged employee with diabetes, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). According to the EEOC’s suit, the employee asked a human...
A federal civil rights lawsuit alleges that a Boston-area middle school failed to protect a 12-year-old Black student who was subjected to a racially hostile environment in which white students attacked him and called him racial slurs on multiple occasions....
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued a final rule to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) providing important clarity that will allow pregnant workers the ability to work and maintain a healthy pregnancy and help...