Warning: Use of undefined constant referer - assumed 'referer' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 102

Warning: Use of undefined constant host - assumed 'host' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 105

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays:102) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 106

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays:102) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 109
Abilities Of People With Disabilities - Term Papers

Abilities Of People With Disabilities

Assumption: A person with mental retardation cannot be trained to
perform a job as well as an employee without a disability.
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.
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 Coordinator
for the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, stated, "The most ...

Want to read the rest of this paper?
Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay
and over 50,000 other term papers

least you can get the job you
deserve. This is possible because of the courts and the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission wants to extend protections under the 1973 Rehabilitation
Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act to obese people. In December of 1993
a Federal Appeals Court ruled unanimously to uphold an order that required the
state of Rhode Island to pay $100,000 in damages to a 320-lb. woman for not
hiring her and then ordered that she be hired as an attendant at a mental
retardation facility. The EEOC said, "It is not necessary that a condition be
involuntary or immutable to be covered." In September of 1993, California's
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 person's fault.
Pregnancy is usually considered a natural occurrence that all people
accept, but from 1965 to 1978 AT&T forced pregnant women to ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays.
Write better papers. Get better grades.

Already a member? Login

CITE THIS PAGE:

APA
MLA
Chicago
Turabian

Abilities Of People With Disabilities. (2006, January 13). Retrieved November 23, 2024, from http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Abilities-Of-People-With-Disabilities/39567

"Abilities Of People With Disabilities." Essayworld.com. Essayworld.com, 13 Jan. 2006. Web. 23 Nov. 2024. <http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Abilities-Of-People-With-Disabilities/39567>

"Abilities Of People With Disabilities." Essayworld.com. January 13, 2006. Accessed November 23, 2024. http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Abilities-Of-People-With-Disabilities/39567.

JOIN NOW

Join today and get instant access to this and 50,000+ other essays

PAPER DETAILS

Added: 1/13/2006 05:37:25 PM
Category: Social Issues
Type: Free Paper
Words: 701
Pages: 3

Save |

Report

SHARE THIS PAPER

SAVED ESSAYS

Save and find your favorite essays easier