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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris_ on January 02, 2012, 01:18:52 PM
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EEOC: High school diploma requirement might violate Americans with Disabilities Act
The “informal discussion letter” from the EEOC said an employer’s requirement of a high school diploma, long a standard criterion for screening potential employees, must be “job-related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity.” The letter was posted on the commission’s website on Dec. 2.
Employers could run afoul of the ADA if their requirement of a high school diploma “‘screens out’ an individual who is unable to graduate because of a learning disability that meets the ADA’s definition of ‘disability,’” the EEOC explained.
“While an employer is not required to ‘prefer’ a learning-disabled applicant over other applicants with more extensive qualifications, it is clear that the EEOC is informing employers that disabled individuals cannot be excluded from consideration for employment based upon artificial barriers in the form of inflexible qualification standards,”
Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/1/eeoc-high-school-diploma-might-violate-americans-w/)
You knew this would happen eventually.
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Shouldn't this apply to jobs that require college degrees then? Even for government jobs?
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Shouldn't this apply to jobs that require college degrees then? Even for government jobs?
SHOULD it or WILL it are two entirely separate trains of liberal thought. I wish their whole damned train would derail off the highest bridge.
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Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/1/eeoc-high-school-diploma-might-violate-americans-w/)
You knew this would happen eventually.
These students cannot obtain a high school diploma as they are taking life skill classes. I would imagine they would have demonstrate that they have a protected disability covered under IDEA (which is simultaneously covered under ADA -- IDEA protection is difficult to obtain).
Jobs requiring high school diploma (or GED) are actually a huge problem for those individuals with significant cognitive disabilities that are high enough functioning to obtain gainful, and probably part-time, employment doing manual labor or low-skilled positions. I would rather they award these students a diploma that would be an acceptable alternative to meet the requirement so that the proper vetting is done at the public school level to ensure the student in fact qualifies for this consideration.
The intent is to solve a long standing problem for those individuals who WANT to work, but are extremely limited to do so because of a valid cognitive disability. This of course will be abused by those who are just generational worthless individuals. Shame.
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This of course will be abused by those who are just generational worthless individuals. Shame.
I see it opening a whole new class of lawsuits.
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Just so we are clear on who I am referring to:
(http://www.keighleypeoplefirst.cswebsites.org/Libraries/Local/845/Images/learning_and_disability.jpg)
He wants to work, and can work -- he completed school and probably happily attended everyday and did his absolute best he could. Give the kid a break and understand why there needs to be something done, but I am not in agreement this is the something.
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I see it opening a whole new class of lawsuits.
It will, and it's a shame. Give this problem to a Republican to solve and they would solve it in a well thought out and productive way, with serious accountability for fraud.
The second you allow the Democrats near the problem, the loop holes become completely unmanageable.
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I can see where they are coming from, but it seems like it is opening an incredible can of worms once it gets into the ugly realm of reality instead of the clean and intellectualized world of policy formulation.
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I can see where they are coming from, but it seems like it is opening an incredible can of worms once it gets into the ugly realm of reality instead of the clean and intellectualized world of policy formulation.
Well, I have a high school diploma and a new pair of WAL-MART reading glasses. I want a job as a brain surgeon in the new Obama healthcare system.
Well then, I'll just sue.
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Well, I have a high school diploma and a new pair of WAL-MART reading glasses. I want a job as a brain surgeon in the new Obama healthcare system.
Well then, I'll just sue.
You'll fit right in.
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You'll fit right in.
Yeah, surgery on DUmmie brains can't be that hard....if you can find them.
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well they already make "citizenship" discrimination.
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Yeah, surgery on DUmmie brains can't be that hard....if you can find them.
Hardest part is to get 'em to lie on their bellies so you can cut into their asses.
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Shouldn't this apply to jobs that require college degrees then? Even for government jobs?
How about post graduate degrees? "Com on down fo yo bress exim!" - Dokter Andrsen.
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How about post graduate degrees? "Com on down fo yo bress exim!" - Dokter Andrsen.
Like this guy?
(http://www.performanceboats.com/gallery/data/500/2qv5vlt.jpg)
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"Don't worry, scrote. There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now. "