People with disabilities at work

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Anyone can be touched by disability, following an accident or illness. Anyone can become disabled. A disability is all the difficulties encountered by people to react to a situation of life. Disability is not just people in wheelchair.

There are six different disability's groups:
-Motor disability: this is the set of disorders which can cause damage to the motor skills. There are people in wheelchairs but also people become unable to work, who have difficulties to move, to maintain or change a position, to perform a task;

-Visual disability which concerns the blind and visually impaired people;
-Hearing disability which concerns deaf people;
-Mental disability like autism;
-Intellectual disability: it is the difficulty to understand;
-Disabling diseases: it is respiratory, digestive, parasitic, infectious diseases like cancer, AIDS …

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[...] Spain has set a threshold of in companies with over 50 employees, and the rate may reach in Italy according to company's size. There are no such obligations in Britain, the United States or the Netherlands, but incentives and anti-discrimination measures are implemented. II/ Second part: RELUCTANCES IN 2008, the unemployment rate of people with disabilities is two times higher than people without disabilities/ bodied people/ non-disabled people which are 10% according to INSEE (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques). Why? Because companies and people with disabilities are faced with obstacles. [...]

[...] Only people who know people with disabilities around them will be more involved in this problem. - No proper training of people with disabilities is often cited by companies as the main barrier to employment. There is a gap between business' needs and skill level of workers with disabilities. Companies have difficulties to find trained candidates with disabilities. Indeed, students with disabilities don't pursue their studies, often by self- censorship of people with disabilities have a below bachelor's level. III/ Last part: Solutions to face the problem For people with disabilities Recognition of disability is very useful for them. [...]

[...] For example, declare a disability in a CV divided probabilities for an interview. - Unsuitable premises: Premises are often not adapted for people with disabilities. There are stairs, elevators which don't work, doors too small, corridors too long so they are subjected daily to a multitude of obstacles. For companies - Prejudices: Companies don't know enough about disability. People are not comfortable with it. They think people with disabilities are not up to the task. - Financial costs: Companies must make financial investments to adapt the premises and workstation. [...]

[...] People with disabilities at work Introduction Anyone can be touched by disability, following an accident or illness. Anyone can become disabled. A disability is all the difficulties encountered by people to react to a situation of life. Disability is not just people in wheelchair. There are six different disability's groups: -Motor disability: this is the set of disorders which can cause damage to the motor skills. There are people in wheelchairs but also people become unable to work, who have difficulties to move, to maintain or change a position, to perform a task; -Visual disability which concerns the blind and visually impaired people; -Hearing disability which concerns deaf people; -Mental disability like autism; -Intellectual disability: it is the difficulty to understand; -Disabling diseases: it is respiratory, digestive, parasitic, infectious diseases like cancer, AIDS . [...]

[...] Conclusion To conclude, we can say that more and more companies are sensitive to disability. Many companies are seeking employees with disabilities, because the laws oblige them, but also because policies of diversity promote a new mindset. Indeed, welcome people with disabilities are a guarantee of enrichment for everyone: it fosters relationships, listening, mutual support among employees of the same team. Moreover, employees with disabilities are generally highly motivated by their work and loyal to the company. So they should not be seen as a burden but as an opportunity. [...]