Unfashionable Hiring Practices
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2016
- Workers with disabilities have unemployment rates double the rate of those in the general workforce and earn as little as half of what people without disabilities earn. Disability Rights New York’s investigation and study, conducted by labor economist Marc Bendick, Jr., Ph.D., demonstrates that these outcomes often arise not because these workers can’t do the job, but instead because employers don’t give them a chance.
Watched this on FB. First thank you for publishing this. Its an important topic. I only hope you'll look at the challenges people with invisible disabilities face which are often greater than those with mobility disabilities.
I had to take a retail job because local human services agencies won't hire me. Apparently the fact that I stutter implies I am unable to communicate which couldn't be father than the truth.
How do I know? Every interviewer has a 'tell'. The second I open my mouth their body language changes, pupils dilate, and they tense up. I once spent over an HOUR with someone who just couldn't get past the fact that I stutter. She was so focused on my ability to answer one phone line she wasn't able to see my strengths no matter how much I redirected her. Its extremely frustrating.
Universities with an appeal process for disabled students need to be looked into. UAlbany told me I could not appeal my medical withdrawal because I did not get sick in the beginning of the semester but I got sick towards the end of the semester. They only appeal students who get sick in the beginning of the semester not students who get sick in the middle or towards the end of the semester. And while I was in the hospital for a months they tried to contact me but I was not aware that they were mailing me because the address they were mailing was the school address. Because of this I can't go back to school.
I got laughs and snickers at me in a few interviews and have been declined a lot of jobs even with a 911 dispatching backround. Life Rolls On...chin up.
This is a good video. some companies sometimes don't want to play by the rules. As of 1990, if you are an employer and you choose to discriminate against someone who has a disability like not hiring them, you get get yourself into a heap of trouble. Fines can be severe. Some hospitals feel that since it is cheaper to go ahead and hire the person with disabilities rather than discriminate against the applicant, all the hospital will do is look only for the amount of talent the person has and that's all. Former President Bush signed the ADA into law in 1990, but some companies didn't like that one bit and voted for Bill Clinton instead.
Great work DRNY!
As long as people don't start thinking about people with a dissability that they are just the same this might take centuries ;-)
after 36 years I can tel :-) When I started back working in the 80' people where even shocked that I could work as a secretary let alone do the job. I worked at a lawyers office she was working on here own, just started and I had nearly 10 great years with here :-) we are still good friends :-) at the office everything was adapted to my needs. As long as the job was done she was happy and I was happy that's how it should be, she was sad too see me go, but I wanted to try and work full time.. that's life. I stopped about 3 years ago due to cancer. And yes I came across several people with small minds ;-) bad luck for them..
It’s disgusting how ppl just look at the chair and instantly write you off, thinking some stupid excuse like oh she’s probably gonna need help to maybe open a door, when a so called ‘normal’ person doesn’t know how to do a simple database entry??
were nothing more than people to collect government help money to them
I know how its difficult to get a job when you have a disability
Same situation in France, in every country I suppose
Very different when u r wheelchair people, not everyone could feel the good
I have spina bifida and i want to work in fashion i am very angry with there practices
The eeoc in Nebraska was God God awful. The lawyers didn't know crap. I had to tell her everything. Incompetent.
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Maybe instead of telling people they should hire someone with a disability you address the stereotypes better so employers know that there is no risk?
I write stories mostly featuring disabled protagonists (usually paraplegics). As someone who is not a paraplegic I sometimes have to really think before understanding how my character can perform a task. If you can't imagine that someone will be physically able to perform a task necessary for the job, are you really going to hire them?
Being qualified for a job does not equal being able to perform the required tasks. Now that it is plain that an issue exists I think there needs to be something addressing concerns that disabled people aren't able to fulfill the full requirements of a position.
I will say that asking them is definitely an option and I can't understand why someone would not just ask someone "how would you perform this task?" if they are unsure. Maybe they are afraid of being rude? (pretty awful excuse, though, if they are refusing employment on the grounds of an unconfirmed assumption...)
You try hiring a cripple then firing them because they can’t do the job. It’ll be a law suit running into $1000’s. Not worth it in the first instance.