Great video! 👍 disability discrimination is something im facing even after winning a retaliation and disability discrimination cba arbitration hearing. You would think an employer would stop their unlawful behavior.
Terrific video! I really appreciated your unique expert perspective on these issues. You shared important nuances that seem to be, for the most part, inadequately explained elsewhere. Thank you!
I have PTSD and have a coworker who is very angry, slams things around, swears, and sometimes does this while she positions herself between my desk and the opening of my cubicle. I find it hard to focus when I'm distracted by her rage fits. My manager had said they can move my workstation, but he isn't in a hurry to get that done. The coworker has been a nightmare for years and they've done nothing. Moving on....
I would love to talk with you and tell you about my son who was fired. He's neuro diverse with history of significant speech delay. He is 19 now and has come a long way but still has some speech differences and some social skill differences. He's not been dx w autism but has some autistic tendencies. He was fired after people who didn't know him filed complaints about his social differences stating these made them feel unsafe. This was unexpected and immediate. It's been an awful experience for him. I'm trying to help.
I’m having issues with this right now. Employer labeling a task as essential yet similarly situated staff do not and haven’t been trained on task that they are labeling essential for me. The prior individuals in my position didn’t have to do task as well, and I’m apart of a protected class. What defines essential functions?
You raise excellent points - how can a task be essential for you, if your predecessors didn't have to accomplish it and neither do similarly-situated staff?! One additional thought for you to consider if you end up filing a charge is whether you can show that you are being subjected to different terms and conditions of employment by being required to do this task because of your protected class.
@@richproulxworked for 3 years in a chaotic, unorganized, untrained department where I was supposed to be the team lead. My head exploded on the first day when I asked for my position description, expectations, training plan, desk manuals, cheat sheets, list of my job responsibilities and my new supervisor told me that she did not like to be a supervisor and she was close to retirement and that is why she hired me, for me to do the thing she was required to Have in place for the last 20 years. Reasonable accommodations for all of those things where denied even though they were required WAC, rcw, CBA. My doctor just kept diagnosing me with anxiety and depression and I kept telling her it was more than that. Finally in intensive outpatient treatment I was advised that I was neurodivergent and probably had adhd, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, audio processing disorder and on and on. Did not get the diagnosis until after I constructively discharged. They fought my unemployment and I won. The counselor said that their toxic chaotic workplace made my brain paralyzed and I was suffering with autistic burnout due to Management's refusal to support
Sometimes, it's an employer’s negative attitudes, beliefs and assumptions about people of that neurotype that are the only performance harming and disabling aspects that someone with ADHD will experience in their workplace. On the job stigma and discrimination can be more disabling than the condition itself.
