Effects and Accommodations of Discriminated People With Disabilities

People With Disabilities in the Business Place First Article: Equality and Human Rights Commission. "Working Better: The perfect partnership -- workplace solutions for disabled people and business." May 2012. 11 September 2014. This article on the topic, "Working Better: The perfect partnership -- workplace solution for disabled people and business" is by the Equality and Human Rights Commission of the United Kingdom. It focuses mainly on the people living with disability in the workplace and the discrimination they encounter on a daily basis.

It brings out the present reality at the workplace in London, where there are several people with disabilities, but only a handful are hired compared to their colleagues with no disability. Therefore, the commission went out to engage the people living with disabilities, asking them about their aspirations and experiences in the workplace. This was with the goal of finding new solutions to eliminate discrimination against people with disabilities at any workplace.

Relation to class readings This article outlines the following: the evidence base, the scale of the challenge, why change is needed, the current picture of the workplace, and making a difference by opening up work, creating the perfect partnership-employment relationships. It concludes by giving the recommendations for employers regarding people living with disabilities. This article suitably relates to what was discussed in class. This is in line with the accommodations that should be given to such people in the workplace environment.

This has been addressed as seen in the recommendations that the Equality and Human Rights Commission gives to all employers at the conclusion of the article. It is evident that someone with a disability can be as productive as the other people are but any instance of discrimination can result in the drastic reduction of the same. Discriminated individuals are demotivated and feel unwanted hence the reduced performance at the workplace. Second Article: YMCA. "How does disability discrimination affect all of us?" Stand against Racism. 11 September 2014.

Summary The article by YMCA is titled, "How Does Disability Discrimination Affect All of Us?" The article addresses the topic in question form as a way of reasoning with its audience on this crucial topic bedeviling the society. First, it begins by giving the readers the recent statistics about the people living with disabilities in America and the world at large. The statistics shows how these people have been increasing since the early 1990's and their approximate current population.

The article further brings out the various ways in which people living with different disabilities are affected in different places in the society. The various places identified where people with disabilities are discriminated include employment, education, healthcare and insurance, housing, law.