Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 10, 2012 22:34:46 GMT -5
Captain-with all due respect, you can post studies against ADA, but ADA isn't going to go away nor will employment discrimination against workers with disabilities be tolerated.
I can understand your frustration. Welcome to management. But don't let one bad apple spoil it for all.
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 10, 2012 22:36:22 GMT -5
Maybe this worker in question is allergic to strawberries. Give her than box of chocolate covered strawberries you received as a Christmas gift. Problem solved.  |
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Post by zibazinski on Dec 11, 2012 8:52:38 GMT -5
It's too bad that this happened. Even in states with no recourse or not having a protected class, it's hard to get rid of pita employees. DF almost hoped that he would have to dissolve his company because he would have severanced his good employees long enough to get rid of the bad ones and then started up shop again. That seems to be the only way of ridding yourself of them.
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Post by midjd on Dec 11, 2012 9:14:54 GMT -5
The ADA is federal... it applies equally to all states (although not all employers).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2012 9:41:43 GMT -5
I think the accomodations you have listed that you have done are way beyond reasonable! Your employer should not have to make it up for him being obese and his childhood traumas, etc. If anybody should cry discrimination, it is the other employees who actually have to work, who can't take off whenever they felt like it, who can't lay down on a couch during business hours, who don't have somebody carrying their crap to/from their car, etc.
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Post by zibazinski on Dec 11, 2012 10:20:52 GMT -5
Welcome to the real world. It starts in school and ends up producing adults who think the world owes them because they breathe. We actually reward children in school for not misbehaving for an hour. Ignore the ones who do the right thing. Look at this country. This is what is happening. If you marry and have a family, you pay for those who choose to milk you for doing so. We won't end up like Greece, we are Greece.
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Post by hoops902 on Dec 11, 2012 11:01:07 GMT -5
Captain-with all due respect, you can post studies against ADA, but ADA isn't going to go away nor will employment discrimination against workers with disabilities be tolerated. I can understand your frustration. Welcome to management. But don't let one bad apple spoil it for all. I agree, it's not going to go away, even if it means hurting the exact people it was intended to help. |
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Post by The Captain on Dec 11, 2012 14:09:52 GMT -5
That's kinda my point folks.
Before ADA I would have no problem hiring a disabled person as long as they could do the job. Now with ADA the cost to provide "reasonable accommodations", the extra documentation required to terminate a member of a "protected class" for lack of performance and the constant threat of a law suite over imagined discrimination will have me thinking twice about hiring another disabled person.
Based on the employment statistics I am not alone. Thus my assertion it has done more harm than good.
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