This is your 30-Second

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Good Day!

• This is your 30-Second
• Employer Training
• Employment Basics

30-Second DEI Trainings are a collaborative
effort Coming soon will be local Disability
Resource Coordinators in several areas of the
state.
ENJOY
Click here to begin
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Consider this, from the book Superfreakonomics
by Stephen D. Levitt Stephen J. Dubner
the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), was
intended to safeguard disabled workers from
discrimination. A noble intention, yes?
Absolutely but the data convincingly show that
the net result has been fewer jobs for Americans
with disabilities. Why? After the ADA became
law, employers were so worried they wouldnt be
able to discipline or fire bad workers who had a
disability that they avoided hiring such workers
in the first place.
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Is it true that under the ADA you cannot
discipline or fire an employee with a disability?
NO, it is not true. Under the ADA I CAN
discipline or fire an employee with a disability.
YES, it is true. Under the ADA I CANNOT
discipline or fire an employee with a disability.
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WRONG!!!

• One of the greatest civil rights leaders of all
  time and author of the Americans with
  Disabilities Act, the Honorable Tony Coelho,
  stated, "Give us the right to be fired!"

Please try again
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CORRECT!

• If an employee is having difficulty in fulfilling
  their job duties it may be
• due to the need for an accommodation. In this
  instance it is the
• employers obligation under the ADA to provide a
  reasonable
• accommodation if one is requested by the
  employee. This is, in many
• cases, a cost-effective way to keep a valued
  employee.
• However, employees with disabilities are like all
  other employees in
• that not all of them will prove to be effective
  in their position or within your
• organization.
• Check out more information about The Americans
  With Disabilities Act
• Applying Performance And Conduct Standards To
  Employees With Disabilities.

Thank you From Glenn Olsen your Disability
Employment Initiative State Lead Glenn.olsen_at_dwd.w
isconsin.gov