Open Justice reports the change entitles parents to the minimum wage. Thousands of resident family carers who receive Disability Support Services funding - could soon be deemed its employees. The case ...

On December 3, the Department of Labor issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that, if finalized, would eliminate 14(c), a provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act that allows some employers—mostly ...

The contention is over a federal law that creates a special minimum wage for disabled workers in extreme circumstances. Most of these workers, who generally could not perform in an ordinary workplace, ...

Last November, I was scrolling mindlessly through my Facebook feed when I saw a post that snapped me to attention. It was a picture of an 18-year-old man named Sam who had just voted—which shouldn’t ...

Disability-rights advocates have long insisted that, as a matter of public policy, disabled people’s lives should resemble those of nondisabled people to the greatest extent possible. They have argued ...

Colleen Lutkevich and Kim Meehan sit on a bench at the Wrentham Developmental Center, which houses residents that are severely developmentally disabled — including Lutkevich's sister. Meehan's sister ...

The Ontario Ombudsman office’s latest investigation found there is a need for the health ministry and MCCSS to collaborate ...

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Five workers at an adult day care in East Brunswick have been charged, along with the facility, with physically abusing two severely disabled adults. According to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s ...