Disability Discrimination In The Workplace

For many years we have been having an issue with disability discrimination happening in the workplace. Since 1990, the law of Americans with Disabilities came to act and because of this act the disabled were protected from employers discriminating against employees or applicants with disabilities. ADA covered all aspects of employment including hiring, pay, promotion, firing, and more. Well even though this act came to play doesn’t mean we still don’t get discrimination in the workplace, still till this day employers like to fire disabled people. In this case, Sharon Coleman was forced to resign from her job as a legal secretary because her son was disabled. Sharon’s son Oliver was born with a condition that affected his breathing and he