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The Americans With Disabilities Act prohibits employers from discriminating against disabled job applicants who are capable of doing the work they apply for.
More recent data for New York is unavailable, but anecdotal reports from disabled job seekers and from the nonprofit and governmental groups that help them point to a worsening market.
Public job search assistance programs could aid employers by incorporating job auditions or job tryouts and by providing certification of job readiness in the case of disabled job seekers, particularly those with low education.
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It also calls for a £248m underspend on the programme – because of "under-performance" by providers – to be ploughed back into helping disabled job-hunters.
In 2007, when Walgreens was building a high-tech distribution center in South Carolina, the retailer wanted 30percentt of the 800 jobs to be filled by disabled job-seekers.
Since that success, other major companies -- including Best Buy, Toys R Us and Lowe's -- have followed suit, adopting similar models and taking advantage of programs that help match disabled job-seekers with companies looking to hire.
Helping the sick and disabled into jobs with one-to-one support workers isn't cheap either: Access to Work helped 28,000 last year, costing £60m.
The company also visits college agencies for the disabled, not just job fairs, when visiting campuses.
There are two ways in which an employer might unlawfully discriminate against a disabled employee or job applicant: first, by treating him or her less favourably (without justification) than other employees or applicants because of his or her disability; or, second, by not making reasonable adjustments (again, without justification).
So, apart from low-level jobs, disabled people are still barred from the civil service.
An earlier version said: Disabled people lose jobs after Access to Work changes.
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