VA disability compensation functions as government payment for service-connected harm, not welfare, and the language used to ...

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Last September, Amazon fired Jordan Flowers, a co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union. Flowers believes he was targeted, not only because he is organizing for worker rights, but also because he is ...

UPDATE: Dec. 15, 2025: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the 7th Circuit’s ruling in Nawara. The Americans with Disabilities Act may allow an employee without a disability to recover ...

The benefits provide important economic support for older people who cannot work. The White House recently halted changes to ...

Licensed social worker and disability consultant Vilissa Thompson, LMSW, was born with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a rare group of disorders better known as brittle bone disease. Those with brittle ...

Disability care workers Ricardo Zegri and Niurka Sureda-Jackson sit outside the California state Capitol on April 10. Zegri says Taco Bell would pay him more than the $19 an hour he makes as a ...

A worker claimed in a now-viral post that they were fired last week because of their disability. "Manager [pushed] me to come in sick on a [work-from-home day] for a 'really important reason'...to ...

A former disability support worker who alleges she was sent into urine and feces-covered homes by her employer has been left unable to speak for six years. In late 2019, the 44-year-old, who asked not ...

A public relations worker with ADHD has won a disability discrimination case after she resigned for being called ...