Important Elements of the Americans with Disabilities Act for Persons with Diabetes

O’Brien, Gerald V.; Brown, Melinda S.

doi:10.1080/15367100802081037

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“…Numerous chronic illnesses result in intermittent or continuous disabilities and the consequences of musculo‐skeletal disabilities may render a person more susceptible to certain chronic illnesses. In their analysis of the Americans for Disabilities Act (ADA) in the USA, O'Brien and Brown (2008) demonstrate that categorizations of diabetes as disabling are inconsistent and contested. Troubling questions about evaluating and categorizing their conditions in the workplace pervade the lives of many Americans.…”

Section: Properties Of Chronic Illnesses and Disabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A need for accommodations leads people to disclose at work. Without such disclosures and subsequent requests in the US, a worker loses legal protection for discrimination under ADA (O'Brien and Brown, 2008). A positive response from supervisors and co‐workers validates the employee and eases his or her reservations about having disclosed.…”

Section: Meanings and Forms Of Disclosurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, a supervisor might approve an ergonomic desk chair but resist approving the request of an employee to begin the workday two hours earlier than other staff. Another major dilemma for employers concerns weighing opportunity against safety (O'Brien and Brown, 2008). Occasionally, questions arise about whether a disabled worker could imperil other workers or clients.…”

Section: Dilemmas Of Disclosurementioning

confidence: 99%

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Disclosing illness and disability in the workplace

Charmaz

2010

Jnl Intl Education in Business

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PurposeThis paper seeks to explore what disclosing illness and disability in the workplace means to workers with chronic illness and disabilities. It aims to argue that beginning analysis from the meanings of these workers contributes to a nuanced understanding of their situations; gaining this view requires knowing how individuals define their health as well as their meanings, risks, and dilemmas of disclosing illness and disability; understanding the employee's perspective and actions helps employers to make useful accommodations for illness and disability; and this analysis can offer researchers and managers in international business a starting‐point for making comparisons with worksites across the globe.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis derives from qualitative data in which issues concerning disclosure emerged as a recurring theme, and on studies reported in literatures that illuminate ill and disabled workers' views and experience. The paper draws on material from 185 qualitative interviews with North Americans who have chronic illnesses and disabilities and on interview data reported in the research literature that illuminate ill and disabled workers' views and experience.FindingsIn all these data, issues concerning disclosure emerged as a recurring theme. Beginning analysis from the meanings of the workers contributes to a nuanced understanding of their situations that involves learning how individuals define their health as well as their meanings of the risks and dilemmas of disclosing illness and disability.Practical implicationsThe practical implications of this analysis include: aiding employers to understand the employee's perspective and actions, providing considerations for making useful accommodations for illness and disability, and offering researchers and managers in international business a starting‐point for making comparisons with worksites across the globe.Originality/valueThe paper examines how workers with chronic illness and disabilities feel about disclosing their conditions, with a view, inter alia, to helping employers to compare their situation with other worksites worldwide.

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Section: Meanings and Forms Of Disclosurementioning

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