Throughout the course of history, federal legislation and Supreme Court decisions have empowered the evolution of rights for Americans With Disabilities. Milestones made by both branches of government have efficiently modernized and safeguarded this marginalized group of people. For instance, discrimination against these individuals is prohibited, in manners such as, education, public transportation, and employment. However, in the free country of America, their freedom wasn’t granted. Restaurants were able to refuse service to people with disabilities and people confined to wheelchairs were forced to leave them behind to be able to ride a bus or a train.
Introduction Often times when people hear the word ‘discrimination’ they tend to think of discrimination against race, sex or religion. But there is also another group of people that often get discriminated against, people with disabilities. In order to make the United States a more inclusive nation, President Bush signed the American Disability Act into law on July of 1990. According to the United States Department of Justice, “The American Disability Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, State and local government, public accommodations, commercial facilities, transportation, and telecommunications. It also applies to the United States Congress.”
The people with disabilities that would want to apply for a specific job would have to show that in the job their disability would ultimately slow down or cause an extreme downfall in the business in order to not be considered at least to obtain the job. However, afterwards every employee with or without disabilities will have to go through an entrance exam once they have already been moved to the maybe pile. The act will disapprove of the employer to ask questions on the disability unless and only unless their disability might pose as a future downfall in the business. For the sum of the hiring process this will not interfere if the company
Affected Populations The ADA affects a wide variety of people and it is intended to protect those who have a physical or mental impairment and are limited by one or more life activity. Examples of life activities include basic functioning, personal care, walking, moving, seeing, speaking, or hearing (Bruckman et al., 1998). In addition to people with disabilities also affected are public and private businesses, employers, government and state ran programs, construction companies, transportation, and communities as a whole (Bruckman et al., 1998).
Cultural and natural exchanges between the new and old worlds is referred to as the Columbian Exchange. The exchanges of technology, plants, animals, and diseases altered the ways of life for the upcoming generations. The exchange lasted throughout the years of expansion and discovery beginning in Columbus' discovery in 1492. The Columbian Exchange impacted the social and cultural makeup of both sides of the world. Developments in agricultural production, evolution of weaponry, decrease of death rates and increase of education are a few examples of the effect of the Columbian Exchange on both Europeans and Native Americans.
According to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (U.S. Department of Justice 1999), a person with a disability has significant impairment in a major life function. Such impairments could be mental, physical, or both. Different causes, such as chronic diseases, development disorders, and injuries, results in a wide range of disabilities. In America, as of 2015, there is an overall rate of 12.6% disabled citizens in the U.S. population, estimated by the American Community Survey (ACS) (annual report).
Disabled people who do manage to make their way into the work force tend to encounter numerous disadvantages such as advancement and on average earn around one quarter of the income of their able bodied counterparts (Barnes, Mercer & Shakespeare 1999, p.110). In addition, the majority of well paid, high skilled, and rewarding positions are commonly taken by non-disabled people (Barnes, Mercer & Shakespeare 1999, p.111). It is possible that employers are not interested or unmotivated to make possible changes or allowance for physically disabled people within their organization
According to the Ability Center, The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) makes it unlawful to discriminate in employment against a qualified individual with a disability. The ADA also, outlaw’s discrimination against individuals with disabilities in State and local government services, public accommodations, transportation and telecommunications (Blanck 5). This document explains the part of the ADA that prohibits job discrimination. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission along with State and local civil rights enforcement agencies, work to enforce this part on the law (Blanck). The law unquestionably improved the lives of people with disabilities in many ways, especially by enhancing their access to businesses and public places.
Some of the rights that employers still have control over when it comes to making decisions regarding hiring people with disabilities is making reasonable accommodations for the disabled employee. For example, building a ramp for wheelchairs. The primary focus for any firm is treating everyone the same while being consistent. Also, taking into account all the discriminatory laws reduces lawsuits against the employer. References
As the first legislation to bring full legal citizenship to Americans with disabilities, the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) was signed in 1990. It essentially protects citizens with physical disabilities, intellectual disabilities, sensory disabilities, and mental health disabilities. It mandates local, state, and federal governments and programs to be easily accessible. Companies are required to provide reasonable accommodations for disabled workers. Many restaurants and stores are required to provide reasonable modifications to ensure accessibility.
Throughout history the disabled have been mistreated and abused. Today we are making improvements to make it better. We should be trying to make it better all disabled people in the future, because they deserve the right as much as any other person. Some say, that people with disabilities are treated the same as they were in the past or that it’s not an issue on how they are treated.
The Americans with Disabilities Act The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provides protection against discrimination of employment due to a qualified individual’s disability (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC], 2005). An individual that has a substantial impairment that limits or restricts a major life activity qualifies as having a disability (EEOC, 2005). The ADA protects an individual from job discrimination provided they are able to perform the duties and functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations (EEOC, 2005). Reasonable accommodations would include making any changes or adjustments to the job or the environment that would allow the qualified individual to apply for and perform the duties and
However the discrimination on the basis was not included in this act. Later in 197 under section 504 of Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was developed as law and later in 1990 ADA was passed for disable people (MTSTCIL, 2010) Requirements of the law: The Americans with disabilities Act is mandatory for equality. A person who is discriminated by an employer because of his real disability or employer is regarding him or her as being disabled under the conditions included in the Act then he or she is entitled to this law protection. The major focus or requirement of this law is to eliminate those employer’s practices which make people unnecessarily different from other, also to provide equal rights and opportunities to disable people at public accommodations and other places etc. (U.S. Department of Justice,
What is the American the ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, and why it is important? To start we need to know that the Law system in the United States is completely different than in Spain, there the Law is based on the customs, and the day by day. In the United State, the Congress is divided in two: the Senate and the House of Representative. The fists rights that Americans had was the Bill of Rights, the first one is freedom of speech, religion, etc; the second is the right to carry a gun.
As the statistics shown above say, disabled people are considered an embarrassment to be around and considered unproductive people, and therefore are excluded from their society. This group of people is socially excluded in many ways: 1) Excluded from leisure facilities Disabled people are usually deprived from their rights of having fun and spending their leisure time like normal people. Have you seen cinemas with special seats for paralyzed people for example? The answer would be no probably. Disabled people find it difficult to enter leisure facilities like swimming pools, bowling centers and cinemas, although with simple adjustments these places could be suitable for
