Hiring People With Disabilities: Article Analysis

Picture a perfect world; some may picture freedom, equal rights or a chance to get a job. What about a person with disability may want, maybe a fair chance of getting a job? What if society in some parts of the world is dipping their toes into a new deception? In the article, gives a new perception on hiring people with disabilities. The article is about a chief executive officer by the name Of Garth Johnson has been hiring disability people and trying to encourage other companies too. The article goes in depth about unemployment for disability is high. The book states; “unemployment rate that is 50 percent higher than that for the able-bodied population and an average income that is 17 percent lower. ” Companies tend to not hire people with …show more content…
Almost half of these people had postsecondary education, the study found.” The disability people are perfectly able to work, however most employers are not hiring them. This could be a source of unintentional discrimination, as they are not picking a specific group of people for a have that is not related to the job. Disability people are perfectly able to do the job, but an employer thinks either they will not do the job as listed in the job description or would need different treatment or it would cost more. If a person is capable of doing what is on the job description, should they have a fair chance of getting a job? If the person with disability gets the job, sometimes they get differential or unequal treatment. Most employers believe in this; “the perception they will need to reorganize work spaces, change work flow or have to buy equipment that would drive up costs. In fact, accommodation isn’t necessarily expensive and often, it costs nothing at all, other than open communication.” As the article states that sometimes people with disabilities do not need accommodation. If they need accommodation, then it is very low in cost or no cost at all. Employers sometimes assume they need to treat them differently. However, treating someone differently can go against the differential or unequal treatment. If the person with the disability can do everything in the job description without accommodation, then they should have the right to be given a chance. Toronto Dominion bank said the accommodation was very cheap and that they only had to pay roughly 500 dollars per employee. The 500 dollars was a onetime thing, which is very cheap compare to other business