At a White House ceremony today, President Barack Obama will sign into law the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), a bipartisan, bicameral deal to improve the nation's workforce development system. The bill, which passed the House and the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support, modernizes and improves existing federal workforce development programs, including for people with disabilities. WIOA represents a compromise between the SKILLS Act (H.R. 803), which passed the House of Representatives in March of 2013 with bipartisan support, and the Workforce Investment Act of 2013 (S. 1356), which passed 95-3.
A one-page summary of the legislation can be found here. The statement of managers, including a section-by-section summary of the legislation, can be found here.
RespectAbilityUSA's president, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi said, "This is a great start towards a new day when employers will be able to have the benefits of the talents of people with disabilities, taxpayers will save money and people will disabilities will finally have the opportunities they need to achieve the American dream."
Today at 2 PM ET RespectAbility will host a free conference call on the steps and strategies needed ahead.
Conference Call July 22nd
2 PM EDT (Washington/NY time)
1 PM CDT (Chicago)
12 PM MDT (Denver)
11 AM PT (LA/San Fran Time)
**** Please plan to dial in 5-10 minutes in advance so you can be brought into the call. This is an operator assisted call and it will be recorded so we can create a transcript later. We will also put it on our youtube. However, live participants WILL have a chance to ask questions at the end of the live call and we look forward to your feedback!
For those INSIDE the United States: the call in number is 1-877-410-5657, pass code: 41268. (TOLL FREE)
For those OUTSIDE the United States: the call in number is 1-334-323-7224, pass code: 41268. Be advised, the international call is is not a toll free number, so your own phone fees will apply.
PowerPoint here.
Thanks for your commitment to enabling people with disabilities to have jobs and be independent!
Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi
President, RespectAbilityUSA.org
RespectAbility
4340 East-West Hwy, Suite 350
Bethesda, MD 20814 United States
(240)744-0546
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