[lit-ideas] Re: amazing employment application questions
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:17:17 EDT
I'm not screaming, Carol. I was just a little non-plussed. I had no clue
what the "reasonable accommodations" meant in that context -- and of course I
answered yes, to the question.
Julie Krueger
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employment application questions Date: 6/5/06 9:11:08 P.M. Central Daylight
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From: _carolkir@xxxxxxxxx (mailto:carolkir@xxxxxxxx) To:
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>So they're asking me if I am able to perform the clerical duties if the
building does not have wheelchair access?
ck: Not exactly. They're *asking* whether you are able to perform the
clerical duties, period. The app is about you, not the building or the
employer's
willingness to provide accommodations. FYI, if the building is federal or
state (receiving fed funds), it must have wheelchair access or it's in
violation
of ADA. Now, THOSE suits have been won, reliably, by potential employees.
Physical accessibility is one of the easiest kinds. Employers love to hire
people in wheelchairs, and to put them prominently, right up front, where
every
visitor can see. (Same thing happened right after the Civil Rights Act passed.
The ADA is modeled directly after the Civil Rights Act, which inspired it.)
About positioning people in wheelchairs so they're extremely visible, I
regret to remember a pamphlet I edited in 1991, written by lawyers for the
banking profession, which advised prominent placement of employees who use
wheelchairs.
Stop screaming, Julie.
Carol
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: amazing employment application questions
So, let's say I'm paralyzed from the waist down in a wheelchair, but my
clerical skills are outstanding (if I do say so myself). So they're asking me
if
I am able to perform the clerical duties if the building does not have
wheelchair access?
Julie Krueger
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: amazing
employment application questions Date: 6/5/06 8:49:14 P.M. Central Daylight
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JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I of course answered "yes". But the "w/ or w/out reasonable
> accommodations" has so many variables, is so nebulous, as to be
> astonishing. What are "reasonable accomodations"? Bathroom breaks?
> Typewriters that work? Chairs?
'Reasonable accomodations' is a term of art in the Americans With
Disabilities Act of 1990. It means about what you'd think it means, and
is explicable pretty much in terms of what you'd need given your
disablity, whatever it is, over and above the standard equipment and
access that non-disabled persons have. (Don't ask me to define 'standard.')
See, e.g. http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Disability_law
Robert Paul
Reed College
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