Posted on 03/20/2014 6:04:12 PM PDT by Nachum
Another ridiculous regulation coming down from the Obama administration, basically telling federal contractors if they want to keep getting federal contracts then they must ensure that 7% of their workforce have a disability, which means these companies will be required to ask about this when hiring.
WSJ – U.S. regulations are coming into effect next week that will require federal contractors to ask their employees if they have a disability, the WSJ reports. A group of employers that includes Boeing Co., Dell Inc. and AT&T Inc., among some 40,000 others, will be compelled to ask about employees’ disabilities for the first time. Those that don’t employ a minimum of 7% disabled workers, or can’t prove they are taking steps to achieve that goal, could face penalties and, in the most extreme cases, the loss of their contracts, according to a government official.
The target applies to contractors with 50 or more employees or more than $50,000 in government work. The Labor Department issued the rules as part of an effort to reduce the high jobless rate among people with disabilities; a similar initiative calls for an 8% hiring target for military veterans. Government officials say the targets are “aspirational” and not rigid quotas. The legislation will affect nearly a quarter of the U.S. workforce, but employees aren’t required to disclose their specific impairment.
Stuart Varney wonders what about the American Disabilities Act, which prohibits employers from asking if someone has a disability. Will they now be taken to court for asking even though they are mandated to ask? Varney says these companies will be damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
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Oh so glad I’m retired and don’t have to put up with this bullshit.
I can see it now.
WANTED for FEDERAL JOBS.
One armed paperhangers.
Blind Proofreaders
Seizure prone aircraft pilots.
The list is endless!
They still count heroin addicts as disabled.
Federal Laws Prohibiting Job Discrimination Questions And Answers
Federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Laws
I can't wait to be entertained by the debate to negate that...Prohibited Inquiries and Examinations
Before making an offer of employment, an employer may not ask job applicants about the existence, nature, or severity of a disability. Applicants may be asked about their ability to perform job functions. A job offer may be conditioned on the results of a medical examination, but only if the examination is required for all entering employees in the same job category. Medical examinations of employees must be job-related and consistent with business necessity.
However, I completely agree with the hiring requirements for federal contractors of disabled veterans.
I just don't understand how they plan on reaching a 15% "aspirational target" for combined 'disabled' workers and 'veterans with disabilities'...
This will result in lowered productivity, which will increase the price of the contractors product to taxpayers.
I wonder if 7% of his personal staff are disabled?
A black, a woman, two Jews, and a cripple.
Does ADA forbid such questions?
Is there an ADA savvy lawyer in the house?
Not really hard. Just tell each employee to list all their disabilities, with rewards for the biggest list. At a big company, anything is possible provided you do everything by the numbers.
Impeach Dictator B. Hussein Obama in 2014, PERIOD.
Here is a good one.
Inexperienced misguided homosexual muslim educated way beyond his intelligence half breed traitor bastard lazy corrupt past life hidden entitled doofus for president.
Got into the white house twice.
At least 7% of our employees are DEMOCRATS.
You can’t get more DISABLED THAN THAT!!!!
When will we finally be free of this asshat.
...and every one of them SHOULD BE a vet with a war-related disability...the others can suck eggs.
That’s the crux of the problem with it. I fully support hiring the disabled, even given preferences to military disabled.
But I don’t like mandating that employers create a wider paper trial on the disabled, particularly if their employees don’t want to provide the info.
And given other gvt information and data mining initiatives it wouldn’t surprise me if this were really a data gathering program masking itself as something to benefit the disabled.
Excellent point.
Force people to hire ghost workers whose paychecks got to them?
If a person is on SS disability, and they work, they LOSE that disability! MORE UNDERHANDED tricks by the dictator in chief.
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