Legislative Enforcement Gaps of Employment Rights of Persons with Disabilities with Particular Emphasis on Reasonable Accommodation in Addis Ababa
| dc.contributor.advisor | Ashengo, Assefa | |
| dc.contributor.author | Teressa, Desalegn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-26T08:14:22Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-08T04:50:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-26T08:14:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-08T04:50:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Persons with disabilities do not equally and fully participate in the life of their society. They are denied of equal opportunities in the area of employment, education and other activities. Thus, this research is aimed at studying the discrimination made against them in field of employment in general and inappropriate work conditions and denial of reasonable accommodations in work places in particular in Addis Ababa City Government-the Case of Arada Sub-City. This research employed qualitative or inerpretivism method and the sampling procedure, which this research followed, is purposive or judgmental. This research used both secondary and primary data sources for gathering information. Various literature and research studies have been reviewed so as to use them as secondary sources of information. Focus group discussions, informant interviews and in-depth interviews were employed in this research as primary source of information. Three visually impaired three persons with hearing impairment and three persons with physical disabilities employees in different government and non-governmental organizations were interviewed as in-depth respondents. Two focus group discussions were held with male and female discussants separately as their challenges vary based on their gender. And interviews were held with concerned government institutions from the federal and city government as they are responsible for the follow-up of implementation of employment rights of persons with disabilities and with respective disabled persons’ organizations for their duties of advocacy and lobby they might conduct. It has been found through this research that discrimination against persons with disabilities (workers with visual, hearing and physical impairment in this concern) had been identified. They discriminated during vacancy announcement, application and competition for jobs. Some had been discriminated on training and promotion. Necessary accommodations and adjustments (provision of special tools and needs) were not fulfilled and addressed in their workplaces. The cause for the discrimination and denial of reasonable accommodations is mainly lack of awareness and attitudinal problems on the part of employers and the employees, nonapplicability of the existing laws, lack of institutional set-up for the follow-up, monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the provided law and inefficiency in mainstreaming the disability issues in every activity, low capacity of DPOs hinder them to make advocacies and lobby and absence of researches and accurate data to make effective policies, program and strategies are the major ones. This results in adverse psychological, social and economic effects in the lives of persons with disabilities. Therefore, awareness-raising programs, policy and legislative measures, advocacy and other initiatives by associations of persons with disabilities, institutional set-up for the implementation of laws and appropriate research and data documentation are needed to curb these problems. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/26197 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.subject | Disabilities with Particular Emphasis | en_US |
| dc.title | Legislative Enforcement Gaps of Employment Rights of Persons with Disabilities with Particular Emphasis on Reasonable Accommodation in Addis Ababa | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |