Deaf Woman Suing Former Employer For Not Providing Sign Language Interpreter

Deaf Sign LanguageAnd with that in mind, I direct you to the bulk of the comments in the article:

Gmama12 hours ago

If she wins it will prevent other employers from hiring deaf employees, the cost of hiring an interpreter would be too great. It isn’t a perfect world.

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    Joe Friday Gmama11 hours ago

    whether she wins or not, it will likely have the same effect. Employers just won’t ever say WHY they aren’t hiring someone.

  • Semmy Johansen Gmama8 hours ago

    her greed will make it worse for all deaf people

    • bradgates Semmy Johansen6 hours ago

      Arrogance. Her employer generously gives her a job, and she thanks them by suing them for not hiring a SECOND employer to shadow her for “translation”. Unbelievable arrogance and conceit.

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        WriterDudeLA bradgates3 hours ago

        It is the same thing as demanding that an employer hire someone who doesn’t speak English and then demanding that the employer provide an interpreter so that the person can do their job. It’s insane.

        • Joshua McKenzie WriterDudeLA22 minutes ago

          Wow. Really? Being Deaf is a physical disability as opposed to a foreigner who just doesn’t speak the language. By law they are supposed to provide an interpreter under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Im glad she is suing. Hearing people clearly need to be educated. And note that she needs an interpreter only during meetings. Thats not too much to ask for. The employer could simply contact an interpreter through the internet through video conference. Its that simple.

  • Liberterian Gmama7 hours ago

    Believe it or not but there are many jobs, even in the federal system, that are only open to the hearing impaired. It would be helpful knowing if Ms Kazerounian has a job that used her sign language skills. These meetings could not have lasted more than an hour and were surely not on a daily basis. I am appalled that an organization like this shirked their responsibility. This is the 21st Century and the hearing impaired are generally better educated than other groups, because they were given the services of interpreters in the education system! There are many children of the deaf who are in the workplace, why wasn’t at least one hearing staff member proficient in sign language?

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      Joe Friday Liberterian7 hours ago

      seriously, you are NOT a libertarian. an organization does NOT necessarily have a responsbility to accomodate every problem of every employee.

    • Jonathan Logde Liberterian5 hours ago

      Agreed.

      And if she spoke Klingon….then why wasn’t at least one staff member proficient in Klingon???

      Or, if she was incompetent, why wasn’t at least one staff member assigned to fix her messes?

      Hey, this is a fun game!!!

      Let’s just pretend that businesses don’t actually attached a VALUE (whether it’s a for profit business or not) to your WORK…..and, when the cost of employing YOU exceeds that VALUE…..then it is not reasonable to expect them to keep you employed…..because at that point, you are no longer an employee….you are an EXPENSE…and you are doing work that is no longer of VALUE.

      But, why let economic realities interfere with everyone’s ‘right’ to have a job?….or at least, to get paid for showing up somewhere at a specified time, eh?

And so it goes.  Do I detect a bit of a “wave of change” occurring?

Just saying.

BZ