The Disability Discrimination act has no power and is useless, do you agree or not?

Answer 1

I disagree. I work in a pub and quite often people use their disability as an excuse for not being responsible for their actions. we have a deaf lady and a man in a wheelchair who both get drunk and abusive and then try to tell staff that we are discriminating against their disability when we ask them to leave.

Answer 2

Hey there Mr!!

I'm currently working for a disability charity, (although today is my last day =( )

The Disability Discrimination act is there to protect, not prevent. The idea is "access for all" it simply mean that everyone is entitled to the same rights. It doesn't meant that your disability won't stop you from doing things though.

If you have a specific problem you should speak to the Disablity rights commission. Tel:[phone].

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

It has the power to enforce a lot of tokenistic and trivial actions by organisations anxious to be seen to be complying with it.
Often this involves ignoring the actual wishes of any disabled people who may be effected!

For instance, We have just had to have a set of adjustable height desks installed in the room where I teach, despite the fact that the only wheel-chair user of the room much prefered the old desks and finds the new ones really inconvenient!

Answer 4

you may make life like transformations. as an occasion - you will possibly could furnish ramps for a individual in a wheelchair - yet you does no longer could spend money you haven't any longer have been given. it would be unreasonable to have ramps at each and every door in case you have been a small company yet you will possibly could set up fire drills with a regularly occurring counsel to help a individual in a wheelchair. a individual who wears Glasses is concept of as having a incapacity. A deaf individual might could be waiting to work out a flashing mild while the fire alarm contraptions off, that's a life like adjustment. incapacity covers actual and psychological impairment.

Answer 5

Generally, yes I agree.

But just because a law is not being enforced doesn't mean we should automatically chuck it away.

We'd need to look to see if society was worse off becuase it wasn't enforced. Is so, we need to enforce it, if not, then we can drop it.

Or preferrably re-write it to make more sense with less loopholes.

The current law allows companies to feel smug about minor changes they make which don't do much to integrate people with specific needs into the workforce or community.

Answer 6

no i dont agree even iff things are not put into place straight away we now have an act to fall back on and demand to have these things put into place. Also very useful to get funding and suing companys :-) basically it provides a guideline as to what the company should be doing.

Answer 7

its like the law of the land im afraid not without its flaws.i was being measured for a elec wheelie until the law changed and coz im an epileptic now ive no chance but the fits always come with warnings

Answer 8

i wouldn't go so far as to say that it is 'useless' but if they hadn't used the phrase 'reasonable adjustment' throughout the whole thing then maybe it would have meant something.
its a cop-out piece of legislation made by people that don't really care.

Answer 9

YES and YES and when it comes to ageism its even worse ....they just keep delaying and delaying hoping that time will get ride of the problem it sucks big style god help you if you eventually get old and everyone does

Answer 10

you need to research the subject further.