Can a hearing aid truly be a disadvantage for one when looking for a job?
seafish asked:
I personally have a hearing deficiency and just have lost a good opportunity on an interview because of my handicap. (the company was afraid that my hearing might worsen…even if it’s not true.)
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I personally have a hearing deficiency and just have lost a good opportunity on an interview because of my handicap. (the company was afraid that my hearing might worsen…even if it’s not true.)
April 7th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
unfortunatly some companies would not employee u ,, but it is a matter of finding the right phone
April 9th, 2009 at 8:43 am
it is true, sorry
people are prejudice
April 12th, 2009 at 4:45 am
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects mentally and physically disabled applicants and employees from unlawful discrimination. Employers with 15 or more employees are covered. The Act protects qualified disabled employees from discrimination in all aspects of the employment process, including recruitment, hiring, rates of pay, upgrading and selection for training. The Act also requires a covered employer to reasonably accommodate a qualified disabled applicant or employee unless it can show that by doing so it would suffer an undue hardship. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has published a new question-and-answer fact sheet on the application of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to job applicants and employees who are deaf or who have hearing impairments.