Lauren Weber
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740 appearances
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first heard Jul 2017
last heard Dec 2024
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And part of what these employers are doing is trying to figure out how to expand opportunity, expand the pools they're hiring from, and be able to fill the jobs that they have.
All of the workers that I spoke to had actually started college, but none of them were able to finish.
These were the people that I included in my story.
None of them finished because either they ran out of money, they had kids early, so had to drop out of college in order to become caregivers, or they needed to work to help support their families.
So by dinging people who didn't finish college, in many cases for them it was just...
life circumstances that didn't allow them to finish that degree.
Well, there has always been a large college degree premium.
If you have a degree, partly because you've been able to access a wider variety of jobs, historically, you earn far more over your lifetime if you have that degree.
Again, this is not an argument for people not getting a college degree, but more a situation where you can open up more economic opportunity to people who don't have the degree by being thoughtful about what skills a job actually requires and how you assess and hire for those skills.
A lot of people asked for accommodations and were told, no, that's an undue burden on the employer and therefore we're going to reject that remote work request.
But it's a mistake for employers and others to discount that people do actually suffer from a lot of these conditions and are more productive at home.
Well, this story came about because I noticed that there were a lot more complaints being filed to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for mental health conditions, what are often known as invisible disabilities, things like anxiety, depression, PTSD, among others.
In one year from 2021 to 2022, the number of charges filed to the EEOC for those three conditions, anxiety, depression, and PTSD,
Each rose by more than 16 percent, which is a huge jump in one year.
And I'm really curious to see what that jump is going to be into 2023.
This, of course, coincides with a lot of companies mandating that their employees return to work.
And that's not a coincidence.
Absolutely.
And that is the point of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
It has a provision that an employee brings to their employer, basically a statement saying, I can do the essential functions of the job that's required, but I need certain accommodations in order to do those essential functions.
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