Employment

[Guest guest]

This comes thru the Will County Disability Advisory Board. Gloria

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Tell the State of Illinois what you want and need to become employed,

and to stay employed. A committee of individuals with disabilities,

employers, and disability advocacy organizations have joined together

to help people with disabilities find and keep a job. Staff from

several Illinois state agencies are assisting the committee in their

work.

We need your help to identify the challenges, opportunities,

strengths, and needs that you face when you are looking for a job, or

trying to keep the job you have. Let us hear from you in an online

survey! Click on the link below:

If you are a person with a disability, go to:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/migconsumer

If you are a parent of a transitioning student, go to:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/migparent

If you are a service provider, go to:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/migprovider

We plan to develop a strategic plan to reduce employment barriers

for Illinois residents with disabilities based on your feedback from

the survey.

To obtain a written copy of the survey or alternate format of the

survey, or to learn more about the Medicaid Infrastructure Grant and

the strategic planning process, please call

1-217-524-7170 or e-mail at .Mott@...

Illinois wants to know your opinion. Here's your chance to be heard!

This survey is federally funded through the Medicaid Infrastructure

Grant. The Departments of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Human

Services, and Healthcare and Family Services are working together to

implement this grant.

[Guest guest]

What state are you in? Do you have easy religious exemptions?

I am in Maine. DH and I have jobs working very closely with children day in and

day out. We were told before hire that we would need to be up to date on all

vaccines and have a TB test. We just told them that we have a religious belief

against vaccines and offered to do the TB blood test instead of the PPD test.

They took it all in stride - really, you can't discriminate in hiring based on

religious beliefs. But if your state doesn't have an easy religious exemption,

they may be able to give you a hard time.

Melinda C.

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> Dear Group:

>

> I really need a job. I worked for the census last year for nine months after

a

> long period of unemployment. I just lost my very part time job last week (10

> hours a week).

>

> I have been looking for work though. I have an interview for " Kennel

Attendant "

> for a local municipality next week. It pays well and has benefits which I have

> never in my life had. I have passed two written tests and a physical agility

> test.

>

> The problem is that I have never been vaccinated and do not intend to be.

> Working with animals may REQUIRE regular tetanus shots, which I have never

had.

> I have asked what the physical exam may entail, and the office refuses to

> elaborate. I am not afraid of a drug test, just the vax Q.

>

> In the past when I have been asked if I am up-to-date with my boosters, the

> answer is " YES " , because as far as I am concerned, I am. I know that

> discrimination against a person's religious beliefs is against the First

> Amendment. What should the answer to that question be if that person wants to

> hire me to work with animals?

> ~ Maureen R. Gradvohl ~

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