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The Workplace Religious Freedom Act (WRFA) is a proposed amendment to title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would limit employers' discretion to decline to accommodate the religious practices of their employees or prospective employees in the United States. WRFA would amend that part of title VII which is codified at 42 U.S.C. 2000e(j).
A reasonable accommodation is an adjustment made in a system to accommodate or make fair the same system for an individual based on a proven need. That need can vary. That need can vary. Accommodations can be religious, physical, mental or emotional, academic, or employment-related, and law often mandates them.
C-Print is a speech-to-text (captioning) technology and service developed at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology. The system is successfully being used to provide communication access to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing in many programs around the country.
Gettinghired.com's job board also presents JAN with one more resource for recruiting new employees. ODEP's America's Heroes At Work (AHAW) to develop JAN reference materials on the Website prior to the August 2008 launch. JAN provided consultation on accommodation issues to AHAW staff, including ODEP's subcontractor.
Deaf employees were routinely excluded from workplace information, denied opportunities for promotion, and exposed to unsafe conditions due to lack of accommodations by UPS; UPS also lacked a system to alert these employees as to emergencies, such as fires or chemical spills, to ensure that they would safely evacuate their facility; and
A Colorado company discriminated against a deaf employee when it fired her after she requested an American Sign Language interpreter for meetings, according to federal officials.
A Starbucks barista is earning plenty of praise for her viral exchange with a deaf customer. Brianna Roth is an interpreting student at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, N.Y.
As regards having "reasonable accommodation in the workplace" the report says that although legally there is no obligation to have reasonable accommodations in Italy, Article 2 of Law 68/99 talks about issues regarding work environment and relations and "therefore can be considered as a form of reasonable accommodation".