Accessibility and Accommodations Clause Samples
Accessibility and Accommodations. Certified AJCs must meet the requirements of WIOA Section 188 affording programmatic and physical access to services. Each comprehensive and affiliate AJC is assessed annually to ensure accessibility to individuals with disabilities. All AJCs are equipped with accessible computers specifically designed with ADA equipment and software to accommodate a variety of disabilities. Program service providers can provide language assistance to individuals with limited English proficiency through oral interpretation, either in person or via a telephone interpretation service such as the Language Line or written translation. Reasonable accommodations are made for customers requiring assistance to receive services.
Accessibility and Accommodations. 24.1 The Union and the Employer mutually state their commitment to prioritizing the issue of accessibility, broadly construed, in considerations of changes to store layout or any other decisions in which there is an opportunity to improve accessibility or to limit reductions of accessibility.
24.2 The Employer and the Union recognize that ‘accessibility’ shall not be narrowly understood as only encompassing matters of physical mobility.
24.3 Whenever any significant changes to the store layout are being implemented, the Union Health and Safety shall be consulted. All decisions with respect to accessibility remain the Employer’s to make.
24.4 The store shall provide all unit Employees with reasonable accommodations, including ergonomic chairs, hand trucks, back-braces, wrist-braces, if requested and is shown to provide preventative safety value. The Employer has sole discretion to select what model of equipment they purchase.
24.5 Nothing herein obligates the Employer to make any infrastructure investments above those required by law.