---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tanmoy <tanm...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 20:37:17 +0530 Subject: {Disability Studies India} Articles by Shelley Tremain and David Perry To: "disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com" <disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com>
Disabled People Need Not Apply Disability studies scholars have identified a new technique designed to prevent disabled people from applying for jobs: the stipulation of physical requirements for positions. The criteria ("physical demands") stated are usually very specific and elaborate, disqualifying a range of potential disabled applicants. Such practices have even been adopted by universities and colleges. In the past four months, I have seen two postings for jobs in philosophy that stipulated physical requirements such as "ability to stand and deliver a lecture" and "full sight and hearing capacity." In the one case, these stipulations were set out on a university HR site that was linked from a philosophy department's job posting. In the other case, the stipulations were included in the very job posting itself. In both cases, the institutions in question were American universities. Philosophers must adamantly oppose the use of such criteria in the job postings for positions in their own departments and on their university's HR page. These criteria are in direct violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. - See more at: http://philosophycommons.typepad.com/disability_and_disadvanta/2016/02/disabled-people-need-not-apply.html#sthash.Hes497f3.dpuf Perry's article: http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/2/disabled-people-need-not-apply.html#sthash.Hes497f3.dpuf -- Tanmoy Bhattacharya Editor, Indian Linguistics http://people.du.ac.in/~tanmoy/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Disability Studies India" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to disability-studies-india+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/disability-studies-india. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..