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Full-Text Articles in Disability Law
Workplace Wellness Programs: Empirical Doubt, Legal Ambiguity, And Conceptual Confusion, Camila Strassle, Benjamin E. Berkman
Workplace Wellness Programs: Empirical Doubt, Legal Ambiguity, And Conceptual Confusion, Camila Strassle, Benjamin E. Berkman
William & Mary Law Review
Federal laws that protect workers from insurance discrimination and infringement of health privacy include exceptions for wellness programs that are “voluntary” and “reasonably designed” to improve health. Initially, these exceptions were intended to give employers the flexibility to create innovative wellness programs that would appeal to workers, increase productivity, and protect the workforce from preventable health conditions.
Yet a detailed look at the scientific literature reveals that wellness program efficacy is quite disputed, and even highly touted examples of program success have been shown to be unreliable. Meanwhile, the latest administrative regulations on wellness programs were vacated by a district …
Disability Cause Lawyers, Michael E. Waterstone, Michael Ashley Stein, David B. Wilkins
Disability Cause Lawyers, Michael E. Waterstone, Michael Ashley Stein, David B. Wilkins
William & Mary Law Review
There is a vast and growing cause lawyering literature demonstrating how attorneys and their relationship to social justice movements matter greatly for law’s ability to engender progress. But to date, there has been no examination of the work of ADA disability cause lawyers as cause lawyers. Similarly, despite an extensive literature focused on the ADA’s revolutionary civil rights aspects and the manner in which the Supreme Court’s interpretation of that statute has stymied potential transformation of American society, no academic accounts of disability law have focused on the lawyers who bring these cases. This Article responds to these scholarly voids. …
Reasonable Accommodation Of Workplace Disabilities, Stewart J. Schwab, Steven L. Willborn
Reasonable Accommodation Of Workplace Disabilities, Stewart J. Schwab, Steven L. Willborn
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Labor Force Participation And Income Of Individuals With Disabilities In Sheltered And Competitive Employment: Cross-Sectional And Longitudinal Analyses Of Seven States During The 1980s And 1990s, Peter Blanck, Helen A. Schartz, Kevin M. Schartz
Labor Force Participation And Income Of Individuals With Disabilities In Sheltered And Competitive Employment: Cross-Sectional And Longitudinal Analyses Of Seven States During The 1980s And 1990s, Peter Blanck, Helen A. Schartz, Kevin M. Schartz
William & Mary Law Review
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the labor force participation and wages of individuals with disabilities who have transitioned from facility-based (i.e., sheltered) work to employment in integrated and competitive settings. The investigators had access to data from seven states on the labor force participation and wages of more than 3000 individuals with disabilities who have moved from institutional to community placements over the past two decades.
Among the findings: the majority of individuals in these geographically diverse samples were unemployed over time; sheltered employment prepared some individuals for entry into employment in integrated settings and resulted in …
Identity And Disability In The Workplace, Susanne M. Bruyere, William A. Erickson, Joshua T. Ferrentino
Identity And Disability In The Workplace, Susanne M. Bruyere, William A. Erickson, Joshua T. Ferrentino
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Disabiling The Ada: Essences, Better Angels, And Unprincipled Neutrality Claims, Aviam Soifer
Disabiling The Ada: Essences, Better Angels, And Unprincipled Neutrality Claims, Aviam Soifer
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Employing The Alcoholic Under The Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990, Wendy K. Voss
Employing The Alcoholic Under The Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990, Wendy K. Voss
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Employment Rights Of Handicapped Individuals: Statutory And Judicial Parameters, Toni M. Massaro
Employment Rights Of Handicapped Individuals: Statutory And Judicial Parameters, Toni M. Massaro
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.