8.(5) Workplace Equality - ReadySetGooo/Sustainable-Development-Goals GitHub Wiki

By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value

United States

REMOTE WORK MUST BE USED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO REDUCE THE SPREAD OF COVID.

Resources

  • Ask Jan is a website that explains what disability accommodations are available to you based on ADA law. https://askjan.org/

Informational Resources

Potential Solutions

  • Use the Sustainable Development Corps Program and a free voucher-that-isn’t-a-voucher-because-it’s-an-accessible-method-of-payment-for-co-working-work-from-not-home offices for people who experience domestic violence, homelessness, or need a place to get away from distractions. 

  • Create a program to cover the costs for small-businesses to become ADA compliant.

Rules

  • Evaluate all businesses and organizations for ADA compliance, prioritizing by largest size. 

Stock and Flow Structures

  • Universal Design, “design that’s usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design”. When jobs, buildings, and communications are accessible, the disability is diminished or eliminated.

Flows

  • Transition people into jobs that promote healthy economic growth and assist with the sustainable development goals by analyzing fields, industries, and specific jobs that are damaging to the economy.

Disability-Specific Accommodations:

  • Optimal location and spacing of things and places

  • Designated seating or placement in optimal locations

  • Planned adjustments for temporary and permanent changes, maintenance, and things/spaces in repair

  • Automated door openers, as well as automating things that require physical force (optimal placing can help with this as well)

  • Ramps for stairs, thresholds, curbs, and other barriers

  • Railings

  • Braille signs, appropriately placed

  • Using natural products instead of chemical products

  • Neutral smell

  • Reducing noise

  • Reducing glare

  • Neutral temperature, appropriate use of heating and air conditioning

  • Having alternative screen options for dark mode, night mode, and electronic ink display. 

  • Have a rule that people with contagious illness are not allowed to go inside. Paid sick leave. If it is not possible to be avoided, have a rule that people with contagious illness must wear a mask and use hand sanitizer 

  • Have hand sanitizer available for those who wish to use it

Accessibility for people who are overweight: Have information on chairs available in spaces, on the organization’s website: 

  • Width

  • Depth

  • Do the chairs have armrests?

  • Are the chairs free-standing or tied to another chair?

  • Do the chairs have a weight limit?

  • If some chairs are more accessible, how can you request them?

  • If possible, include photos of the various seats you have. 

Bathroom Specific, all the above and: 

  • Grab bars

  • Raised toilet seat

  • Doors swing out of the stall, not in it

  • When there is a large accessible stall, put a sink in it. 

Informational and communicative

  • Recorded audio

  • Note taking/handouts

  • Live captioning, especially for group calls

  • Live caption topic summaries 

  • Live reminders and notifications (to call attention to specific topics, or a name being called)

  • Telepresence robots with and option for virtual reality for the viewer

  • Keeping lights on, especially during presentations

  • Availability for in person written conversations, yes/no questions, and numbered responses

  • Availability through email, text, and video calls, and asynchronous communication.

  • Interpreters

Work Schedule

  • Remote work

  • Flexible hours

  • Modified work 

  • Availability to change hours to part time or full time

  • Frequent breaks

  • Extended time to complete tasks