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Deaf Hurt by "Current Employment" Requirement?
This past week, the news story that held my attention the most was the one about how the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating whether the practice of requiring people to be "currently employed" in the job search is discriminatory. On February 16, the EEOC held a widely-reported hearing on this issue. Disabled people are one category of people that the EEOC is concerned this practice may have a disproportionate impact on.
How could the job advertisement statement "must be currently employed" potentially have a disproportionate impact on deaf and hard of hearing people? I can think of two possible reasons. One is that being deaf or hard of hearing can make it difficult to land that first paying job. Without that first paying job, you are not considered "currently employed." Another possible reason is that being deaf or hard of hearing can make it more difficult to find a job after being laid off, resulting in an even longer stretch of unemployment. That long stretch of unemployment makes it difficult to satisfy the "must be currently employed or recently employed" requirement in a job advertisement.
Meeting of February 16, 2011 - EEOC to Examine Treatment of Unemployed Job Seekers
This past week, the news story that held my attention the most was the one about how the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating whether the practice of requiring people to be "currently employed" in the job search is discriminatory. On February 16, the EEOC held a widely-reported hearing on this issue. Disabled people are one category of people that the EEOC is concerned this practice may have a disproportionate impact on.
How could the job advertisement statement "must be currently employed" potentially have a disproportionate impact on deaf and hard of hearing people? I can think of two possible reasons. One is that being deaf or hard of hearing can make it difficult to land that first paying job. Without that first paying job, you are not considered "currently employed." Another possible reason is that being deaf or hard of hearing can make it more difficult to find a job after being laid off, resulting in an even longer stretch of unemployment. That long stretch of unemployment makes it difficult to satisfy the "must be currently employed or recently employed" requirement in a job advertisement.
Meeting of February 16, 2011 - EEOC to Examine Treatment of Unemployed Job Seekers