When to escalate and advocate strongly

As managers and employees, how can we ensure that we support equitable disability accommodations for everyone? The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) offers a wealth of protections, but many workers and leaders are unaware of what these protections entail. Luckily, there are experts like Rachel Shaw out there to shed light on their intricacies and help educate us all.

Rachel is a leading strategist in workplace inclusion and disability compliance and the author of “The Disabled Workforce: What the ADA Never Anticipated.” She joins me to add clarity to the laws in place to protect people with disabilities—including mental health and pregnancy—and ensure we have access to an equitable work environment that allows us all to be productive contributors, whatever differences of ability we might experience in our lifetimes. 

Understand your rights and responsibilities around disability inclusion:

• The most proactive and effective way to ask for an accommodation;
• The essential accommodation process every organization needs to develop;
• How much it really costs companies to approve employee requests;
• What’s missing from the ADA and how it’s being addressed.

Related Links:

• Connect with Rachel Shaw on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-shaw-00037745/
• Learn more about Rachel’s work - https://rachelshaw.com/
• Buy “The Disabled Workforce” - https://www.amazon.com/Disabled-Workforce-What-Never-Anticipated/dp/1544708599
• Episode 390, How to Manage ADHD in the Workplace - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode390
• Episode 460, Balancing Work with a Complicated Pregnancy - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode460
• Episode 123, Pursuing a Promotion While Pregnant - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode123
• Episode 335, What do mom-friendly Workplaces look like and how to create them - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode335   
• Episode 311, How to Talk About Marital Status, Parental Status, and Pregnancy in the Interview - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode311
• Episode 315, How to Talk About Disability or Chronic Illness in the Job Interview - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode315
• LEVEL UP: a Leadership Accelerator for Women on the Rise - https://www.bossedup.org/levelup
• Bossed Up Courage Community - https://www.facebook.com/groups/927776673968737/
• Bossed Up LinkedIn Group - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7071888/

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