…Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (S.533) is a bill that would give states and businesses the help they need to create competitive integrated employment opportunities for disabled people. Competitive…
…employment opportunities for disabled people. Competitive integrated employment (CIE) means a job where disabled people are paid at least minimum wage and work with both disabled people and nondisabled people….
This summer, you put in the work to pass the Transformation to Competitive Employment Act. Thanks to your advocacy, we’ve seen new cosponsors signing on to TCEA throughout the summer…
…of lack of access and opportunity in employment that unfortunately continues today, with developmentally disabled adults having the highest rates of unemployment and underemployment among all categories of disabled people….
…We appreciate the projects that have focused on preparing autistic people for competitive integrated employment and the handful of efficacy studies that examine these programs. Specific employment research can and…
…ODEP has addressed the employment needs of individuals with the most significant disabilities. “Integrated employment” refers to ensuring that people with profound disabilities are provided the opportunity to seek employment…
…and businesses the help they need to create competitive integrated employment opportunities for disabled people. Competitive integrated employment (CIE) means a job where disabled people are paid at least minimum…
…wage, and it most commonly happens in sheltered workshops. It is discrimination, and it is unacceptable. The Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA) is a bill that would give…
Today, members of Congress reintroduced the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA). TCIEA would end the subminimum wage for disabled people (called 14(c), based on section 14(c) of the…
It’s important for self-advocates to understand employment policy and how things could be different—so that we can effectively advocate for an end to policies that hurt us, and for the…
