Comments on: Just don’t call them quotas: disabled-hiring benchmarks for federal contractors

By: Wednesday hearing on OFCCP disabled, veterans quotas - Overlawyered

Wednesday hearing on OFCCP disabled, veterans quotas - Overlawyered — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:45:06 +0000

[…] here, here and here. As I observed back in […]

By: Labor Department Imposes Disability Hiring Quotas, Even in Divisions that Don’t Get Federal Contracts

Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:04:29 +0000

[…] finalized rules that will effectively require businesses that get federal contracts to adopt a 7 percent hiring quota for the disabled. Much of the American workforce is employed by a federal contractor, since most […]

By: Melvin H.

Melvin H. — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 11:51:49 +0000

Sounds also like Corporal Klinger’s many attempts to get a Section-8 discharge out of the Army on “M*A*S*H”. (Imagine how the ADA would work in THAT circumstance.)

By: Labor Department imposes burdensome disability hiring quotas on many businesses | Liberty Unyielding

Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:20:10 +0000

[…] just finalized rules that will effectively require businesses that get federal contracts to adopt a 7 percent hiring quota for the disabled. Much of the American workforce is employed by a federal contractor, since most […]

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 04:34:11 +0000

It’s a Catch-22. “You can’t get treatment unless you can prove that you’re crazy.” “How do I prove that I’m crazy?” “You refuse to seek treatment.”

By: Boblipton

Boblipton — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:09:23 +0000

But Density, Old Duck, given the advantages of being disabled, they’d have to be crazy to seek treatment!

Bob

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:23:09 +0000

In a few years we’ll hear about the sudden “epidemic of disability” as more and more Americans register as “disabled”.

And nobody will remember this moment, when it became a legal requirement to hire disadvantaged persons, and an incentive to declare yourself disabled was created.

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On the other hand, one of the biggest barriers to people getting mental-health treatment is the stigma associated with a public declaration of mental illness. Maybe by making disability an actual advantage people will be encouraged to seek mental-health treatment (and, in so doing, have themselves declared disabled.)

By: rogers turner

rogers turner — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:46:09 +0000

MattS:

I suppose it is similar to having paranoia deemed a disability…you dont really need to prove any real discrimination or disparate impact..if you perceive it, your putative employer is per se liable…win/win….

By: Labor Department Imposes Disability Hiring Quotas, Even in Divisions that Don’t Get Federal Contracts | WorkplaceChoice.org

Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:34:14 +0000

By: Hans Bader on disabled-hiring quotas - Overlawyered

Hans Bader on disabled-hiring quotas - Overlawyered — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:00:02 +0000

[…] on my post of yesterday, Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar Hans Bader makes several additional points about the […]