Random thoughts on disability supports and employment for the disabled
2020 09 13 | journal
Employers do not want to hire disabled or chronically ill people. Yes, it might be illegal to discriminate, but many employers won't accommodate, don't want the hassle of it, and find ways around dealing with it. You also can't accommodate everyone's issues all of the time.
Chronically ill folk, for example, don't get hired because employers do not want to hire someone with unpredictably timed or unpredictably lengthed absences from work due to health concerns out of their control.
The programs that exist now for the disabled, for example, don't come close to helping them. They are little more than legislated poverty that don't give enough to cover market rents, food, basic necessities, or any semblance of a quality life. But provincial governments haven't raised those rates in decades. In Ontario, not since the 90s. Someone on ODSP is trying to get by on $1169 a month. That's disgusting.
Pushing for a UBI helps them too.