News Archive: Disability
NEON news stories relating to Disability
April 2007
Employment discrimination statistics April 2006-March2007. Race and disability discrimination a continuing concern.
Disabled people's employment bill repealed.
DPEP repeal bill: A carer's story.
What is the financial cost of care?
Who cares? Women in the homecare industry. Editorial by Janice Burns, Top Drawer Consultants.
Work life balance earns staff commitment: EEO Trust story.
Work life balance earns staff commitment: EEO Trust story.
March 2007
Banking on Diversity. British bank Barclays leads the way with a disability mentoring programme for employees.
December 2006
Reasonable accommodation: How hard is that? Helping a person with a disability to work doesn't have to be that difficult.
December 2006
Reasonable accommodation: How hard is that? Helping a person with a disability to work doesn't have to be that difficult.
Sign up for coffee: Star Sign Cafe is the first and only cafe in New Zealand staffed and run by deaf people.
International EEO news: Includes story on new minimim wage rules for people with disabilities in Australia.
November 2006
Making disability work: Human Rights Commissioner Robyn Hunt on the UN Convention on Disability.
International EEO news: Includes story on new minimim wage rules for people with disabilities in Australia.
November 2006
Making disability work: Human Rights Commissioner Robyn Hunt on the UN Convention on Disability.
May 2006
An Accessible Work-wide Web - article on accessible web content by Robyn Hunt
Disability in the Workplace - the Good News and the Bad News. Four stories including an interview with Australian accessible technologies guru Mark Bagshaw
March 2006
November 2005
EEO Brain-Gain – interview with Susan Biggs, new Senior Advisor Crown Entities
September 2005
July 2005
May 2005
March 2005