Essay about Abilities Of People With Disabilities - 701 Words

Abilities of People With Disabilities Chris Moore nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Assumption: A person with mental retardation cannot be trained to perform a job as well as an employee without a disability. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Fact: Over two thirds of Pizza Hut employees have mental retardation. The average turnover rate (the rate at which workers quit) of these employees is a modest twenty percent compared to a one hundred and fifty percent turnover of employees without disabilities. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;It is this kind of thinking that limits the ability of people with disabilities to find employment more than any other factor. In an E-Mail on Thursday, November 7, 1996, Barbara Sommer, Disabilities Employment†¦show more content†¦woman for not hiring her and then ordered that she be hired as an attendant at a mental retardation facility. The EEOC said, quot;It is not necessary that a condition be involuntary or immutable to be covered.quot; In September of 1993, Californias Supreme Court ruled that a health-food store owner could not reject a job applicant if her fatness were the result of a faulty metabolism or a psychological systemic prob lem, but could if it were the persons fault. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Pregnancy is usually considered a natural occurrence that all people accept, but from 1965 to 1978 ATamp;T forced pregnant women to take unpaid maternity leaves, awarded those employees less seniority than others on disability, and gave them no guarantee that they could return to their jobs or equivalent positions. Georgetown University Law Professor Wendy Williams, the major proponent of equal treatment, maintains that since quot;pregnancy leads to a physical inability to work, it should be treated as any other temporary physical disability.quot; Laws that give pregnant women specific privileges, she and others argue, imply unequal status and are likely to prove detrimental to women in the long run. Do these women not deserve to be not separate, not special, but just equal? nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;By now you may be wondering,Show MoreRelatedThe Prevalence Of Childhood Disability967 Words   |  4 Pageschildhood disability has continued to increase, growin g by 15.6% between 2001–2002 and 2010–2011. Nearly 6 million children were considered disabled in 2010–2011.†Houtrow(2014) The United States civilians have had a negative attitude toward people with disabilities. Donaldson(1980) says that they are attempting to change the attitudes towards people with disabilities. 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