you're looking for work, you've been stuck on the $850 a month disability allowance the government pays you.
You have struggled to get training so you can work, and now you're looking for your first job
.You have the qualifications and you send out your resumes! And now the employers start calling you to come in for interviews. And everything is going fine and the employer is interested in your job skills over the phone then you mention you need a chair access , or you are an amputee, and then backtracking and excuses and withdrawal of the interview start !!
In the USA employers know that if they pull this sort of nonsense a disabled person can go to the local Americans with disability office, and file a simple complaint and the employer will have to answer some questions about their hiring practices they do not want to.
Unfortunately here in Canada employers know all they have to face is the human rights act, and the human rights commission the federal government runs and even then employers know it can take years before a complaint gets before the commission and even then their chances of winning are very good. The laws here in Canada really do not protect our disabled citizens. About 2% of the estimated million people here in Canada that are classified as disabled work, the other 98% most are capable of working with adaptive software or with minor workplace modifications but unfortunately our society still seem to have the Victorian mentality when it comes to the disabled of out of sight out of mind.
The ironic thing is employer is that routinely hire disabled people, and truly are equal opportunity employers have found that their disabled workers are usually the best workers they have, the most conscientious, and the hardest working.
The only program Canada has for employers use a program called the opportunities fund
employers do not get tax breaks or incentives in our country for hiring our disabled citizens unlike in the USA it has improved somewhat, over 40 years ago but it still needs further to go!
The disabled have the same dreams hopes and aspirations as our able-bodied citizens, when are we going to let them become full members of our society. Heck I just had to fight the government for over a year in order to get the right to return to work because I am now in a wheelchair and classified as currently disabled
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