...open to the public; the right to use public transportation; and many other rights. Before the ADA became law, it was legal for most employers to look a person with a disability in the eye and say,” you have dyslexia. I will not hire you.” Today, employers (with 15 or more employees) cannot do that. The goal of the law is simple. It is to eliminate discrimination against people with disabilities. Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibits private employers, state, local governments, employment agencies and labor unions from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, hiring, firing, advancement, compensation, job training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. The ADA covers employers with 15 or more employees, including state and local governments. It also applies to employment agencies and to labor organizations. The ADA’s nondiscrimination standards also apply to federal sector employee under section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act, as amended and its implementing rules. An individual with a disability is a person who: has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; has a record of such an impairment; or is regarded as having such an impairment. A qualified employee or applicant with a disability is an individual who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential...
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...develop volunteerism. UNV provides strategic advice on the role and contribution of volunteerism. UNV helps countries to improve public inclusion and participation in social, economic and political development, and we support the growth of volunteerism within communities as a form of mutual self-help. UNV helps to organize and run local and national elections and support a large number of peacekeeping and humanitarian projects. UN Volunteers comprise one third of all international civilians working in UN peacekeeping operations. UNV also has the Online Volunteer Services, which helps development organizations directly with thousands of online volunteers who can provide services and advice over the internet. UNV is non-profit and private sector organizations in order to support development program. UNV delivers a prompt, efficient and...
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...WAYS OF DLSU-D TO ADDRESS CONCERNS OF STUDENTS WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES September 2008 Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Historically, people with disabilities are being deprived of quality education because of their condition. They have been pitied, ignored, and belittled. Many institutions have tried to ignore them with the judgmental view of the society looking down unfairly on these kinds of people. It is the educator’s obligation to open the minds of every student and empower them with knowledge that would equip them in facing the challenges in life. (Encarta, 2004). It is the prime duty of an educator to teach students regardless of their condition. In situation wherein a teacher handles a student with disability, he/she should find ways in order to cope with the students’ needs, concentrating with his potential, not on his limitations. He must motivate and encourage the student to fulfill his duties notwithstanding his disabilities. A child is considered as handicapped if he/she is unable to reach the limits of major life activities or the basic actions that everyone is capable of doing. For the reason that a child ahs abnormal or insufficient structures in their body. It is a physical or mental disorder in the body that affects each body system. This includes deafness, blindness, impairment in some body parts and psychological disorders. Children are qualified disabled if there are services offered to...
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...Introduction According to computing fundamentals theory, ICT (information and communications technology - or technologies) is an umbrella term that includes any communication device or application, encompassing: radio, television, cellular phones, computer and network hardware and software, satellite systems and so on, as well as the various services and applications associated with them, such as videoconferencing and distance learning. ICTs are often spoken of in a particular context, such as ICTs in education, health care, or libraries. This term paper focuses on ICTs in education and particularly its importance in transforming university education provision in Kenya. These ways are discussed in the preceding paragraphs. A specific dimension of scientific and technological progress that is already having a strong effect in university education is information and communication technology revolution. The advent of printing in the 15th century brought about the first radical transformation of modern times in the way knowledge is kept and shared. New ways of reproducing documents and information faster and more efficiently are introduced making learning in university faster and simple. Storage, transmission, access and use of information are today being revolutionized by innovations in informatics and telecommunications. Universities can now store, transmit, access and use information in a much modernized manner than before if new technologies are embraced. Rapid progress in...
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...the United States that was established in 1932 by Senator Hugo Black. This statute “contains provisions and standards concerning minimum wage.” It also covers equal opportunity requirements so that everyone is paid a fair wage regardless of race or sex. It covers overtime and holiday pay, record keeping, and child labor. (Textbook) These standards affect “employees in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments. Covered nonexempt workers are entitled to a minimum wage.” (www.dol.gov/whd/flsa) It also started “the forty-hour work week, established a national minimum wage, guaranteed ‘time-and-a-half’ for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in ‘oppressive child labor.’” (Wikipedia) Provides enterprise and individual employee coverage. Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) – an employment tax that “imposes two taxes on employees and two taxes on employers.” These taxes fund old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program (OASDI) and hospital insurance (HI). (Textbook) The FICA “tax is a United States federal payroll (or employment) tax imposed on both employees and employers to fund Social Security and Medicare —federal programs that provide benefits for retirees, the disabled, and children of deceased workers.” (Wikipedia) This act requires “12.4% of earned income up to an annual limit must be paid into Social Security, and an additional 2.9% must be paid into Medicare. That limit is $113,700 for 2013.” There...
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...Introduction In order to know about a financial organization like a bank, a person should know all section of the financial organization in times. We intend to provide minimum background and procedural guidelines to examiners responsible for evaluating a bank’s activities. Definition of the Bank Bank is defined as a financial institution that collects deposits from various individual and organizations and provides loans to those who need it. But modern banks do not mean only the means of collecting and disbursing money to various entities. Rather it provides various services to various entities which facilitate their business operations. The functional definition of bank is that “it is a financial institution, which accepts money from its customers as deposit and gives money as loan to the borrowers.” According to a prominent economist R.S. Sayers, “A Bank is an institution whose debts are widely accepted in settlement of other peoples’ debts to each other. Another economist C. Cross defined, “A Bank is financial intermediary-a dealer in loans and debts.” Overview of Mercantile Bank Limited MBL in Bangladesh Banking system occupies an important place in a nation’s economy. Banking institution is indispensable in a modern society and it plays a vital role in the economic development of a country. Against the background of liberalization of economic policies in Bangladesh, Mercantile bank Limited emerged as a new commercial bank to provide efficient banking services with...
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...Workforce monitoring 15 Do I have to monitor equality? 15 Types of information to monitor 16 How much monitoring? 16 Who to tell and why? 16 Can I ask about health or disability? 17 What you can do with the data once it has been collected 17 Privacy and confidentiality 18 Reporting 19 Recruitment information 20 Workforce information 21 2 | When you are responsible for what other people do 22 When you can be held legally responsible for someone else’s unlawful discrimination, harassment or victimisation 23 How you can reduce the risk that you will be held legally responsible 24 How you can make sure your workers and agents know how equality law applies to what they are doing 25 Using written terms of employment for employees 25 When your workers or agents may be personally liable 26 What happens if the discrimination is done by a person who is not a worker of yours or your agent 27 What happens if a person instructs someone else to do something that is against equality law 27 What happens if a person helps someone else to do something that is against equality...
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...…………………………………………………….5 Amendments………………………………………………………………………………….9 Strength and Weakness of Older American Act……………………………………………..14 Recommendation…………………………………………………………………………….15 Conclusion … ………………………………………………………………………………16 References……………………………………………………………………………………17 Introduction The new deal program of the 1930’s was enacted by congress to address economic issues during the Great Depression. The Social Security Act of 1935 was a response to criticism for the lack of aid to retired workers age 65 and older and who no longer worked (justfacts.com). This law created "a system of Federal old-age benefits" (justfacts.com). The new act provided pensions, unemployment insurance to nonagricultural` workers, commerce workers, aid to the blind, deaf, disabled and dependent children. Social security provided old age assistance and old age survivors insurance. Social security payment amounts were based on payroll tax contributions. President Roosevelt named this act as “a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but it is by no means...
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...10B – Care provided for looked after children and young people P2: Outline the arrangements for providing quality care for looked after children and young people There are various types of quality care provided for looked after children and young people such as; foster care, residential care, adoption, respite care and temporary/ permanent care, of which can occur due to a care order being put into place. Planning for care in partnership with the child/ young person, parents and other agencies: It is in the child's best interests that any and all care provisions are established and organised whenever possible in a mutually accepted way. In some instances, the parents or family of the child have asked for support and help to be provided, possibly on a short term basis. The chances of the outcome being successful can be increased when all participating parties can come to an agreement on the partnership arrangements for the mutual care and support of the child. Type of Care/ Provision | Characteristics | Foster Care | Foster care is supervised care, which is when a child is looked after by other people who are not members of their own family. Foster care is usually short –term, however it can become long-term depending on the situation and the child's own individual needs; this is provided for children and young people who have been neglected or are unable to live with their parents/ families.This provision provides children and young people with a stable, secure...
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...other characteristics. Some were wrongful acts against the employee or employer. The list just goes on and on. To prevent those things from happening and alleviate the issues, laws were put in place to protect employees and employers. The laws were also put in place to create a safe work environment for everyone. The laws have not completed mitigated the issues, but they have minimized significantly. Many of the laws that are now in place were put in place because of employees and/or employers that went through situations and no law was written to protect them. Laws are now also in place to protect employees when they are not at the workplace for different reasons beyond their control. An example of this is the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA). This act was put in place to protect service members’ jobs when they have be called up to serve their country. In the past, employers could have terminated the employee, but because of this act, employers must keep the employee’s job for the time they leave until they come back. If the employee’s position is no longer available, for whatever reason, the employer must provide the employee with an equivalent job position or the position that they may have received had they not been called up (Martocchio, 2014). There are also publicized court cases out there that discusses what job related issue occurred, how the issue was solved, and what law was violated or put into place because of it....
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...suggests that we are to limit our discussion of vocational education to its technical segment. In other words our focus shall be only on technical vocational education. But then we need to understand the meaning of general vocational education. A definition that I prefer for its simplicity and comprehensiveness defines vocational education as ‘any form of education whose primary purpose is to prepare persons for employment in recognised occupations’ (Okoro, 1993:1) 3. It is obvious therefore that vocational education is a term that is more all-embracing than technical education which O.M. Okoro defines as ‘a postsecondary vocational training programme whose major purpose is the production of technicians’ 4. The National Policy on Education defines technical and vocational education ‘as a comprehensive term referring to those aspects of the educational process involving, in addition to general education, the study of technologies and related sciences and the acquisition of practical skills, attitudes, understanding and knowledge relating to occupations in various sectors of economic and social life’. Technical education can therefore be seen as the formal training of persons to become technicians in different...
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...QUALIFICATION HANDBOOK Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (England) (3978-51/52/53/54/55/56) December 2011 Version 3.1 (February 2012) Qualification at a glance Subject area City & Guilds number Age group approved Entry requirements Assessment Fast track Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (England) 3978 19+ There are no entry requirements Portfolio of Evidence, Practical Demonstration/Assignment. Automatic approval is available for centres offering the 3172 Level 4 NVQ in Health and Social Care – Adults 100/4794/3 and the 3078 Level 4 NVQ in Leadership and Management for Care Services 500/4105/8 Learner logbook and Smartscreen Consult the Walled Garden/Online Catalogue for last dates City & Guilds number 3978-51 Accreditation number 600/0573/7 Support materials Registration and certification Title and level Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (Children and Young People’s Residential Management) Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (Children and Young People’s Management) Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (Children and Young People’s Advanced Practice) Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (Adults’...
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...Advancing Effective Communication, Cultural Competence, and Patient- and Family-Centered Care A Roadmap for Hospitals Quality Safety Equity A Roadmap for Hospitals Project Staff Amy Wilson-Stronks, M.P.P., Project Director, Health Disparities, Division of Quality Measurement and Research, The Joint Commission. Paul Schyve, M.D., Senior Vice President, The Joint Commission Christina L. Cordero, Ph.D., M.P.H., Associate Project Director, Division of Standards and Survey Methods, The Joint Commission Isa Rodriguez, Project Coordinator, Division of Quality Measurement and Research, The Joint Commission Mara Youdelman, J.D., L.L.M., Senior Attorney, National Health Law Program Project Advisors Maureen Carr, M.B.A., Project Director, Division of Standards and Survey Methods, The Joint Commission Amy Panagopoulos, R.N., M.B.A., Director, Division of Standards and Survey Methods, The Joint Commission Robert Wise, M.D., Vice President, Division of Standards and Survey Methods, The Joint Commission Joint Commission Mission The mission of The Joint Commission is to continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value. The inclusion of an organization name, product, or service in a Joint Commission publication should not be construed as an endorsement of such organization, product, or services, nor is failure...
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...1.1 Explain current legislation sector skill standard influence on organizational policies and practices for promoting and maximizing the rights of users of social health and social care service. 1.2 Analysis the factors affect achievement the promoting and maximizing the rights of users of social health and social care service. 1.3 Analysis how commutation between individual and health care worker contribute to promoting and maximizing the rights of users of social health and social care service. 2.1 Explain the factor they may contribute the loss the independence non participation and social exclusion for vulnerable people. 2.2 Analysis how organizational systems and processes are managed to promote participation and independence of the users of health and social care service. 2.3 Analysis the tension that arise when balancing the right of individual to independence and choice against the care provider’s duty to protect. 3.1 use a case study from a health or social care setting to identify the extent to which individual are at risk of harm. 3.2 Explain the role peoples play in a team and how can work together to achieve the shared goal. 3.3 Analysis the effectiveness of policies, procedures and managerial approach within a health or social care setting for promoting the management risk, review current legislation, codes of practices and policies that applies in handling of medication. 3.4 Suggest alternative ways to complete task...
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...Responsibility of Universities to Influence and Make Changes in the Society b. Affirmative Actions in the U.S Universities i. Historic ii. Controversial Points- a Defense of Affirmative Action as a tool to guarantee Diversity iii. Issues IV. Diversity a. What is Diversity? i. Defining Diversity in this Research Paper ii. Nomenclature b. Benefits to Society i. Collective and Individual Benefits ii. Numerical Representation and Informal Interactional Diversity iii. Interaction and Educational Benefits V. Preparing to Work a. Corporations, Global Trade Market and their necessities i. Amicus brief General Motors VI. Improving the Country’s Development a. Social Benefits i. Democracy ii. Employment and Earning Rates b. Economic Benefits i. Qualified Workforce ii. Skills for Competitive and Diverse Business’ Environments VII. Conclusion According to Princeton Profile 2011-12 (2011), the approximate undergraduate enrollment at Princeton was 9 % Hispanic/Latino, 8% African...
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