I have found that situations like this have more involved. Have the blind employees participated in a convention at any point prior, and will it be the site it employees first convention? What are employees job functions? An AT instructor may not be covered by the agency, but a vocational counselor would be sponsored by the agency. I have been with an agency requiring that staff participation was on a rotational basis. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 7, 2018, at 4:45 AM, Justin Salisbury <PRESIDENT at alumni.ecu.edu<mailto:PRESIDENT at alumni.ecu.edu>> wrote: Colleagues, I recently heard about a state VR agency and its plans for how to save money on a state convention. They are basically sending the sighted employees to the convention as a work activity but expecting the blind employees to pay their own way because that?s something they can reasonably be expected to be attending even if they were not employees. The agency is divided into a handful of sections, and the section where all of the blind employees work is the one not getting compensated. Has anyone experienced this kind of thing before? What arguments worked or did not work to resolve the issue, hopefully in a peaceful and face-saving way? Asking for a friend, Justin _______________________________________________ NOMC mailing list NOMC at lists.nbpcb.org<mailto:NOMC at lists.nbpcb.org> http://lists.nbpcb.org/listinfo.cgi/nomc-nbpcb.org