Podcast Series 4 Resources

Disability Inclusive Employment Policy Rehabilitation Research and Training Center COVID Publications

• Telework during the Pandemic: Patterns, Challenges, and Opportunities for People with Disabilities
• DIEP RESEARCH BRIEF: How has COVID-19 impacted disability employment?
• DIEP RESEARCH BRIEF: Telework After COVID: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers with Disabilities
• Mason Ameri’s interview with Ben Casselman of the NYTimes published at Listen to Live Conversations With Journalists From The New York Times
• How Has COVID-19 Impacted Disability Employment?
• Economic Conditions, the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession, and Implications for Disability Insurance in the United States
• Tight Job Market May Yield Higher Pay for Workers with Disabilities
• Creating an Inclusive Workplace: Lessons from the Pandemic
• Lisa Schur, Co-Principal Investigator of the DIEP RRTC, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee – full video
• Disability‑inclusive employment, cancer survivorship, and the Americans with Disabilities Act 
• Disability and remote work during the pandemic with implications for cancer survivors
• The American Rescue Plan Act: State Recovery Plans Outline Intent to Support Workers with Disabilities
• Workplace health surveillance and COVID-19: algorithmic health discrimination and cancer survivors 
• The American Rescue Plan Act: Utilization of Federal Funds to Bolster Employment Supports for Persons with Disabilities
• EEOC Adds New Section Clarifying When COVID-19 May Be a Disability, Updating Technical Assistance
• Prepare for a “tsunami” of long-Covid disability claims (HR Brew)
• COVID-19 and Employment Losses for Workers with Disabilities: An Intersectional Approach
• Telework after COVID: A “Silver lining” for workers with disabilities?

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Publications

• All EEOC materials related to COVID-19 are collected at www.eeoc.gov/coronavirus.
• What You Should Know About COVID-19
  Web: www.eeoc.gov/wysk/what-you-should-know-about-covid-19-and-ada-rehabilitation-act-and-other-eeo-laws
  see particularly N.2., but also N.4., N.5., N.6., N.11. and N.12.
• Enforcement Guidance on Reasonable Accommodation and Undue Hardship Under the Americans with Disabilities Act
  Web: www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/enforcement-guidance-reasonable-accommodation-and-undue-hardship-under-ada
  Provides in-depth overview of the reasonable accommodation obligation under both the ADA and Rehabilitation Act)
• Work at Home: Telework as a Reasonable Accommodation
  Web: www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/work-hometelework-reasonable-accommodation
• Employer-Provided Leave and the Americans with Disabilities Act (also applies to the Rehabilitation Act)
  Web: www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/employer-provided-leave-and-americans-disabilities-act
• Enforcement Guidance on Preemployment Disability-Related Questions and Medical Examinations Under the ADA
  (also applies to the Rehabilitation Act; includes a discussion of these laws’ confidentiality requirements)
  Web: www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/enforcement-guidance-preemployment-disability-related-questions-and-medical 
• Enforcement Guidance on Disability-Related Inquiries and Medical Examinations of Employees Under the ADA
  (also applies to the Rehabilitation Act; includes a discussion of these laws’ confidentiality requirements)
  Web: www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/enforcement-guidance-disability-related-inquiries-and-medical-examinations-employees 

Other COVID Resources

• Job Accommodation Network: Accommodation and Compliance: Long COVID
  Web: askjan.org/disabilities/Long-COVID.cfm
• Pandemic Patients
  Pandemic Patients is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works to relieve the harm caused by COVID-19 and Post-COVID Conditions. The organization was founded by Christopher Floyd and Andrew Wylam on May 26, 2021 during the coronavirus pandemic. The founders launched Pandemic Patients with the goal of providing support and services to those who have been affected by COVID-19. Pandemic Patients accomplishes this mission by raising awareness about COVID-19 and Post-COVID Conditions, advocating for change at the state and federal level, and providing educational resources and updates about the coronavirus pandemic to the public.
  Web: pandemicpatients.org
• ADALive Resources: Episode 104: Employment, ADA, and Post-COVID Health
  These resources were compiled in April of 2022
  Web: adalive.org/resources/episode-104-resources/