JAN Updates Five Practical Tips for Providing and Maintaining Effective Job Accommodations (12/22/08). View JAN Webcast and download accompanying Fact Sheet to train your managers and supervisors. Use these multimedia materials to integrate the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 into your policies and procedures.

JAN Releases Accommodation and Compliance Series: The ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (12/18/08). Find practical tips, processes, and resources to update your policies and procedures.
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Notice Concerning The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Amendments Act Of 2008 (10/06/08). >> Read more.

JAN Announces 08-09 Webcast Series (10/03/08). Register for a JAN Webcast at no cost. Gather your employees together in a room for live, in-service training. Educate yourself, management, and other employees on disability etiquette, assistive technologies, management techniques, and the latest on accommodations and the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). >> Read more. >> Click here to register.

ADA Amended (9/25/08). President Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act into law in the Oval Office in front of Members of Congress. >> Read more. >> View picture of signing.

Launch of JAN's New Website (9/15/08). To celebrate JAN's 25th anniversary, JAN launches an updated Website! The Website is very easy to navigate and extremely functional. It has tools such as JAN on Demand and the Searchable Online Accommodation Resource. Find accommodation examples, Americans with Disabilities Act resources, online guides, testimonials, informational articles, and much more. JAN remains your resource for workplace productivity enhancements and reasonable accommodation solutions. With this virtual launch, JAN thanks its customers, partners, and funding agency for continuing to support JAN's mission.

 

Baseball Legend Jim Abbot Talks About Ability (9/11/08). Baseball legend Jim Abbott is partnering with the Department of Labor to raise awareness about the talents of people with disabilities. >> Read more.

America's Heroes! America's Best! (8/20/08). The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) launches a project that focuses on the employment challenges of returning service members living with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and/or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). To learn more about steps you can take, visit the America's Heroes at Work Website, an online resource managed collaboratively by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS). For individualized assistance with job accommodations for veterans with disabilities, contact ODEP's Job Accommodation Network (JAN). >> Visit YouTube to learn more about America's Heroes at Work!