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Getting a Job

grazza86
over 12 years ago

Isnt it really unfair that employers turn people away because they have HFA or Asperger syndrome?? 

I believe there isnt a lot of support from the UK government when it comes to tackling job employment for the disabled. Would i be right in saying that??

Who on here actually has a part-time or full-time job?

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  • over 12 years ago

    longman said:
    My fundamental question is: are people being outrightly refused jobs because they are on the spectrum? That can be addressed (not easily) on grounds of anti discrimination legislation.

    Whenever anyone goes for an interview and there are, say, six candidates, five are going to lose out so, as you say. it's difficult to sustain a complaint that you have been discriminated against.   Also, employers are running a business and if the choice of an employer is between someone who doesn't require 'special treatment' and someone who does then - all  things being equal - the job will go to the one who doesn't.

    Or is the problem that those on the spectrum are unable to keep jobs due simply to the disability?

    In the area where I live a company was set up (with government aid) which employed people with learning problems to do various gardening jobs for which  they charged less than would be the usual figure.  After about a year they folded because people who used them couldn't cope with gardeners who couldn't work except under close supervision.

     

     

     

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  • over 12 years ago

    longman said:
    My fundamental question is: are people being outrightly refused jobs because they are on the spectrum? That can be addressed (not easily) on grounds of anti discrimination legislation.

    Whenever anyone goes for an interview and there are, say, six candidates, five are going to lose out so, as you say. it's difficult to sustain a complaint that you have been discriminated against.   Also, employers are running a business and if the choice of an employer is between someone who doesn't require 'special treatment' and someone who does then - all  things being equal - the job will go to the one who doesn't.

    Or is the problem that those on the spectrum are unable to keep jobs due simply to the disability?

    In the area where I live a company was set up (with government aid) which employed people with learning problems to do various gardening jobs for which  they charged less than would be the usual figure.  After about a year they folded because people who used them couldn't cope with gardeners who couldn't work except under close supervision.

     

     

     

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