Friday, 14 September 2012

A BBC Business article by Barbara Otto, called, 'Speeding up work for people with disabilities', is seen by many people with disabilities as complete rubbish. What this person fails to grasp is the unwillingness of employers in the EU and here in the UK, to take on people with disabilities because of the challenges of Health and Safety legislation. Companies will not employ someone who is likely; because of a medical condition, to colapse in an unconsious state no matter how fast or adaptive a PC or software is. Companies will also be unwilling for an abled bodied person to sit watching a disabled person all day just incase the person with a disability becomes suddenly ill, this means the company has two employees not being productive and therefore loses revenue. So in theory is Ms Otto saying people with disabilities should work faster then people without, because if you give the disabled people the technical ability to work faster than their abled bodied colleagues will this be seen as a form of discrimination on two counts. I'll let people work that one out for themselves. This is just another American trying to think outside the box, however what she doesn't realise is the box is locked.

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