Disability in the Workplace

This work critically examines diversity, discrimination, and inclusion in the English-speaking Caribbean nations, with a specific emphasis on persons with disabilities. The chapters include an evaluative analysis on the extant theoretical and empirical literature on persons with disabilities in employment, exploring the nature of their disability, the role of information technology in gaining and retaining employment, and an analysis of the laws and relevant policies which prohibit the discrimination against persons with disabilities in the Caribbean region. Though the enactment of legislation outlawing the discrimination of persons with disabilities is not widespread in the Caribbean, a few select territories have taken positive steps towards recognition of the need to achieve inclusion of persons with disabilities and accept the diversity of the Caribbean populace.
After exploring the general state of disability and discrimination in the Caribbean region, the authors analyze workplace accommodations provided to persons with disability, particularly as relations to IT and assistive devices, before focusing on workplace stigmas related to mental health disability and employment law.
In addition to literature-based analyses, the book includes qualitative case studies, with the goal of providing benchmarks in organizational responses to employees with disabilities. Further, the authors highlight lessons to be learned from other countries in addressing inequality in the workplace for disabled persons.
With its analysis of employment as well as socio-economic and legal issues, this interdisciplinary text will serve as a useful resource in not only understanding the organizational challenges faced by persons with disabilities in the region but also the necessary legislation needed to address discriminatory practices on a wider scale.

Focuses on organizational contexts of discrimination against workers with disabilities Highlights disability in Caribbean region, which has been slow to adopt legislation to protect class of workers Contributes to the emerging literature on neurodiversity in organizations

Autorentext

Jacqueline H. Stephenson is Lecturer in the Department of Management Studies at the University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. Her research interests include fairness and equality at work, age discrimination, diversity, inclusion within organisations and discrimination in the Caribbean. Natalie Persadie is Assistant Professor in the Design and Manufacturing Engineering Unit at the University of Trinidad and Tobago.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 - Introduction Disability and discrimination.- Chapter 2 - The nature of disabilities in the Caribbean.- Chapter 3 - Education and persons with disabilities in the Caribbean: A Law and Policy Perspective.- Chapter 4 - Disability, information technology, assistive devices and employment in the Caribbean.- Chapter 5 - Mental health disabilities and work in the Caribbean region.- Chapter 6 - Neurodiversity in the Anglophone Caribbean.- Chapter 7 - Disability, Employment and Law: A Caribbean Outlook.- Chapter 8 - Discrimination against persons with disabilities: Lessons from other jurisdictions.- Chapter 9 - Experiences of disabled persons in employment in the Caribbean region.- Chapter 10 - Conclusion. <p