by Trish Robichaud | Jan 24, 2012 | Accommodations, Employment, Human Rights Cases, Media Coverage
Noble motives may elicit a heavenly reward. But they never spare employers from the wrath of human rights commissions. When Holly Graham, a mobile patrol security officer with Ottawa-based Response Security & Investigations, unexpectedly became pregnant, she...
by Trish Robichaud | Dec 11, 2011 | Accommodations, Employment, Media Coverage
A City of Hamilton employee who was fired for crashing his work vehicle while driving drunk the wrong way on a highway is getting his job back. John Fougere, a 22-year employee of the city, was fired in May 2010 after he caused $9,000 worth of damage to a city-owned...
by Trish Robichaud | Nov 11, 2011 | Accommodations, All, Chronic Illness, Employment, Resources/Tools, Websites
In this section of Health Gateway’s website, health care and rehabilitation professionals, human resource professionals, employers, researchers and policy makers have access to different sources and formats of cross-disability and cross-disease information on...
by Trish Robichaud | Nov 6, 2011 | All, Education, Employment, Resources/Tools
Webcast Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011 Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (EST) Presented by: Cornell University ILR School It’s estimated that 10 percent of the global workforce is comprised of remote workers. Organizations rely more and more on virtual, geographically...
by Trish Robichaud | Oct 24, 2011 | All, Employment, Media Coverage
Reproduced from The Conference Board of Canada, 64 pages, April 2001 Special Report by Ruth Wright Why should organizations include people with disabilities in their business and hiring strategies? Because they cannot afford not to. Document Highlights As our...
by Trish Robichaud | Oct 21, 2011 | All, Employment, Physical Disabilities, Websites
By Jim Hasse I’ve been both a job seeker and a hiring manager during the last four decades in the mainstream job market. And, since birth, I’ve had cerebral palsy, which means I walk and talk with difficulty. With that rather unusual background, I’ve found that there...
