INDEX OF UNEQUAL TREATMENT OF THE DISABLED. A PRECEDENT JUDGMENT OF THE CJEU

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (XXI) ◽  
pp. 241-252
Author(s):  
Andrzej Świątkowski
Keyword(s):  
Time Condition ◽  
Unequal Treatment ◽  
Direct Discrimination ◽  
Disabled Employees ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Disabled Workers

An employer’s practice of paying a salary supplement to disabled employees who submitted a disability certificate after the date chosen by that employer and not taking into account disabled employees who submitted such a certificate before that date, may constitute direct discrimination. It is capable of definitively preventing this time condition from being met in a clearly defined group of workers, consisting of all disabled workers whose disabilities the employer must have known about when the practice was introduced.

Effetti del contatto tra normodotati e disabili in contesti di lavoro

2009 ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Loris Vezzali ◽  
Dora Capozza ◽  
Anna Pasin
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Cooperative Relationships ◽  
Research Hypothesis ◽  
Disabled Employees ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Common Identity ◽  
Disabled Workers ◽  
Italian Province ◽  
Work Contexts

- The authors study the outcomes of cooperative relationships between able and disabled employees in work contexts. The participants were non disabled workers - employed in different organizations of a Northern Italian province - working with colleagues with psychiatric disorders. The hypothesis of the research was the following: cooperative relationships influence positively the opinions and emotions of the able workers towards their disabled colleagues. A measure of implicit favouritism for the category of able employees was included in the research design. Results were consistent with the research hypothesis. Cooperative relationships increased empathy and reduced anxiety towards the disabled workers. These outcomes were engendered by the perception of a common identity: belonging to the same organization. Furthermore, cooperative relationships reduced the implicit favouritism towards the able employees. Discussion: the authors examine the practical and theoretical implications of these outcomes.

scholarly journals THE COSTS FOR ENTREPRENEURS EMPLOYING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN POLAND

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 1064-1072
Author(s):  
Marcin Mikołaj Garbat
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Disabled Employees ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Additional Costs ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Disabled Workers ◽  
Low Activity

lang="X-NONE">The article presents the costs that are incurred to support the employment of people with disabilities in the Polish system of vocational rehabilitation and employment. Employment support system includes the following elements: subsidies to salaries of disabled employees, the refund of additional costs of employing disabled workers, assistance in adaptation and supplying equipment for the workplace and the refund of salary of the employee helping a person with a disability at work. All this generates high financial costs of the system. This is mainly due to the very nature of the disability, which generates additional costs. Without adequate support people with disabilities can not cope in the labour market, and employers will not be interested in employing such workers. Note, however, that the balance of costs and benefits of professional activation of the disabled takes a positive value most often. Working person with disability is simply "cheaper" than the unemployed, who gets a pension, if only because they pay income tax on their earnings, buy more products and therefore pay more VAT, pay rent for their apartment and what is important they are involved in social life. In addition, the economic analysis of the costs incurred in the system allows to look at the facts and phenomena occurring and to determine their causes, particularly the low activity of people with disabilities. Furthermore, on the basis of cost, especially when compared with the effects, one can make an initial assessment of the system.

The Identity Regulation of Disabled Employees: Unveiling the ‘varieties of ableism’ in employers’ socio-ideological control

2020 ◽  
pp. 017084061990029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eline Jammaers ◽  
Patrizia Zanoni
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Intermediary Organization ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Disabled Employees ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Worker Identity ◽  
Disabled Workers ◽  
Ideal Worker ◽  
The Ideal

Conceptualizing organizational representations of disabled workers as a form of socio-ideological control, this study investigates the identity regulation of disabled employees. The comparative analysis of a bank, a labour market intermediary organization and a local public administration unveils distinct ways in which the able-bodied/disabled dichotomy is used to regulate disabled workers’ identity in function of organizational goals and the organization of work: by subsuming them into the ideal employee, by constructing them as the negation of the ideal employee, and by constructing the disabled and the able-bodied employee as distinct and mutually dependent ideal workers. These ‘varieties of ableism’ produce specific understandings of disabled employees that give them differential access to an ideal worker identity, and are resisted in multiple and surprising ways, including reclaiming the ideal worker’s identity and the promised rewards associated with it, and disclosing or hiding one’s embodiment and disability. The study advances the extant knowledge by showing how ableism variously functions as a principle of organizing shaping whom disabled workers are (not) allowed to be in specific organizational settings.

scholarly journals The Effects of Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use on Acceptance towards Office Assistance Application among Employers to Disabled Employees

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Nor Intan Adha Hafit ◽  
Nor Azairiah Fatimah Othman ◽  
Syezreen Dalina Rusdi ◽  
Nurul Salizawatee Mahpar ◽  
Mohd Fariq Izmeer Mat Sharie
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Employees With Disabilities ◽  
Disabled Employees ◽  
Disabled Workers

Employment among people with disabilities remains debatable. This paper investigates employers' points of view towards accepting technological assistance for employees with disabilities at the workplace. Specifically, this paper examines the effects of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use on acceptance towards Office Assistance Application among employers to disabled employees. Acceptance towards any technology has been broadly tested using Davis' Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). To prove if that is the case or not for Office Assistance Applications within the context of employers to employees with disabilities, this research was undertaken to affirm the past research. Data was collected via online questionnaires from 35 employers to Micro Enterprises organization. 6 of surveyed employers were current employers to disabled workers, 18 employers affirmed interest to employ PWDs in the future with 9 employers asserted no interest to hire disabled workers. Data was analysed using Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). The result showed two hypotheses were supported evidencing positive and significant relationship between perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness, and relationship between perceived usefulness and technology acceptance. Findings are useful for employers to improve functions of their disabled workers at the workplace along with increasing employment prospects for people with disabilities.

Work Performance: A Comparison of Severely Disabled and Non-disabled Employees

1975 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 210-216
Author(s):  
Don L. Goodyear ◽  
E. W. (Bud) Stude
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Employee Job Satisfaction ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Disabled Employees ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Supervisory Ratings

The purpose of this study was to compare the job performance of severely disabled ann non-disabled employees as measured by personal characteristics, supervisory ratings, and employee job satisfaction. Subjects include twenty-one disabled and twenty-two non-disabled persons employed at an Internal Revenue Service Center. Results indicated no significant difference in personal characteristics and job performance for the disabled and non-disabled; however, in relation to job satisfaction, the disabled showed a significantly higher extrinsic and overall job satisfaction rating than the non-disabled. The implications are that when disabled employees are given the opportunity and needed job related support, they are able to function in the work environment as adequately as non-disabled employees.

Jordanian perspectives on the disabled at work

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 40-42
Author(s):  
John Wheatcroft
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Graduate Degrees ◽  
High Satisfaction ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Disabled Employees ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Status

Purpose This paper aims to explore attitudes of disabled employees towards their work in the Jordanian public sector, including facilities, the way that they are treated by other employees and working conditions. Design/methodology/approach A sample of disabled public sector employees was selected to participate in the study by filling in a questionnaire. The response rate was very high. Findings Contrary to some previous studies elsewhere, disabled employees reported a relatively moderate level of satisfaction about the availability of facilities. They were also satisfied with the treatment by their supervisors and colleagues and with the working conditions. Disabled female participants and those who hold graduate degrees reported high satisfaction levels. Originality/value This is one of the first studies to investigate the status of disabled public sector employees in Jordan and in the Arab world.

scholarly journals Postrzeganie zatrudnienia osób niepełnosprawnych w Chinach i Stanach Zjednoczonych

2021 ◽  
pp. 98-117
Author(s):  
Tomasz Bieliński ◽  
Małgorzata Lewińska
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Disabled Workers

The perception of employing people with disabilities in China and the United States The concept of disability has been accompanied by controversies, stereotypes and stigmatization for years. Despite the fact that the number of people with disabilities in China and the United States is still growing, the issue of perceiving the functioning of disabled people in the society and including them to the work environment remains unsolved, notwithstanding the number of legal regulations and financial incentives in China and USA to change the employment of people with disabilities. This study compares the perception of employment of people with disabilities in China and the United States. The comparison was based on a self-conducted study among the Chinese community between February and March 2020 on a group of 121 people using the CAWI method (Computer Assisted Web Interview) and an American study: A national survey of consumer attitudes towards companies that hire people with disabilities, by G.N. Siperstein, N. Romano, A. Mohler, and R. Parker, conducted on 803 residents of the USA randomly selected for telephone interviews. The comparison took place, among others, in the assessment of the employment of disabled people by respondents in the context of other social activities in the company, as well as the satisfaction of the respondents with the results of the disabled at work. It was pointed out that in both China and the USA, previous experiences with people with disabilities may affect a more favorable approach towards employing disabled people. However, there are differences in the satisfaction with services provided by people with disabilities, as well as in trust in disabled workers, where Chinese residents have less positive attitude than their American counterparts.

The intersection of disability and in-work poverty in an advanced industrial nation: The lived experience of multiple disadvantage in a post-financial crisis UK

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 636-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Richards ◽  
Kate Sang
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Household Finances ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Disabled Workers

The 2007–2008 financial crisis has affected the prospects for workers in a range of ways. In-work poverty represents just one, yet key feature of how prospects for workers have changed in recent times. In-work poverty disproportionately impacts on marginalised groups, such as the disabled. Current research reveals little about how disability and poverty intersect in the context of employment. To address this oversight, life history interviews were conducted with disabled people in in-work poverty. The findings were analysed using the social model of disability and the lens of intersectionality. The results highlight how government policies, employer practices and household finances impact on disabled workers’ lived experience of in-work poverty. The findings suggest that governments and employers can do more to reduce barriers to escaping in-work poverty for disabled workers.

scholarly journals Gender differences in job satisfaction among disabled workers

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0252270
Author(s):  
Seunghee Yu ◽  
Chung Choe
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Gender Differentials ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Ordered Probit Models ◽  
Disabled Workers

This paper explores the association between job satisfaction and gender for workers with disabilities, using data from the Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled, which interviews officially registered persons with disabilities in Korea. To take full advantage of the longitudinal data, we apply random-effects ordered probit models to investigate the underlying factors that affect gender differentials in job satisfaction. Our findings reveal that merely different work values between women and men do not account for the significantly higher job satisfaction among women. We suggest that workers’ expectations play a role in explaining why female workers are happier in the workplace than their male counterparts; that is, holding other factors constant, women’s expectations from jobs are lower than men’s. This hypothesis is partially supported by the empirical analyses that gender differentials diminish among the highly educated workers, for whom there is less likely to be a gender gap in terms of job expectations.

scholarly journals When Can a Disability Quota System Empower Disabled Individuals in the Workplace? The Case of France

2020 ◽  
pp. 095001702094667
Author(s):  
Sarah Richard ◽  
Sophie Hennekam
Keyword(s):  
Biopsychosocial Model ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Empowerment Theory ◽  
Quota System ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Disability Status ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Life Story Interviews ◽  
Disabled Workers

This study uses an empowerment theory perspective to examine how a disability quota system affects the decision to disclose one’s disability at work. The study reports on 39 life story interviews with disabled individuals who recently entered or were seeking to enter the labour market in France. The study shows that when considering the disclosure decision, disabled workers reflect on personal attributes, such as their educational level, the visibility of their disability and whether they need workplace adaptations; on the organisational environment, such as the organisation’s commitment to diversity; and on the legal context (underpinned by the biopsychosocial model), in this case, the quota system. These reflections determine whether the disabled workers perceive their disability status as a valuable attribute and whether legal disclosure can be empowering. This study proposes a nuanced perspective by highlighting both the system’s potential for empowerment and for propagating inequality among disabled workers.

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