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TO: The U. S. House of Representatives
& U.S. Senate C/O Congressman Peter DeFazio of United
States of America
This is a petition
for those people who are interested in contacting our
legislators and Union Representatives who would like to express
their desire to see that our legislators strengthen laws that
would require the all government agencies, even Government
agencies and all businesses in the private sector to allow and
provide reasonable accommodation to people in the workforce who
suffer from illnesses or any impairment of any necessary life
function.
The medical
community recognizes the necessary life functions that are
critical for life and for independent living as anything that
affects walking, seeing, hearing, thinking, and breathing.
The current trend
of our legal system is that if a person has an impairment of a
necessary life function and if any such person is able to deal
with their impairments so that they can operate at par with
workers that do not have impairments by the use of medicines,
prosthetics, medical devices, wheelchairs, glasses, et cetera,
these same people are not protected by the law if their
employers discriminates against them because of their
impairments.
The current trend
in the law has diminished protection of people with impairments
in the event that their employer will not allow these workers to
use their doctor prescribed medication, prosthetics, medical
devices, wheelchairs, glasses, et cetera.
According to one
of our United States Justices there is the trend to assert that
as long as a person can wash their face, comb their hair, and
brush their teeth, then they are not to be considered disabled
enough to deserve legal recourse or protection by our courts in
the event that a person is discriminated against by their
employer or disallowed the reasonable accommodations that would
enable these workers to work on an even playing field.
This petition or
letter of interest is to assert our rights as citizens and
employees to seek a better resolution that would demand that all
employers in both the public or government sector and employers
in the private sector allow their employees the right to be
reasonably accommodated especially if the employee is willing to
incur all cost and legal liability themselves.
This petition or
letter of interest is to assert our rights as citizens and
employees and to assert that since we have an aging population,
and since our government is looking to increase the age that
people are able to retirement then it is imperative that
reasonable accommodation become a indisputable right for an
aging population that will experience a impairment of one or all
of their necessary life functions that is often common within
the average aging population.
This petition or
letter of interest is to assert our rights as citizens and
employees that since the reality of aging and diminished ability
is a reality, the increased need for reasonable accommodation is
obvious, in light of the fact that anything less would put aging
workers at risk of being kick out by employers by the various
techniques and using the various loopholes in the legal system.
The current trend would leave aging or injured employees at risk
of financial and familial ruin.
This petition or
letter of interest is to assert our rights as citizens and
employees to be allowed reasonable accommodation at least at
their own expenses and liability first and in the event that
there is no type of reasonable accommodation that can resolve a
worker’s injury and/or impairment whether this impairment is due
to factors such as congenital, environmental, accidental, or
aging or a combination of any of these factors then and only
then should the employee look towards Workman Compensation or
medical disability be it social security disability or medical
disability provided by their employer.
Link
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