Mentally_Ill_Discrimination

Mentally Ill Discrimination In forty-seven out of the fifty great states in the US, there are laws that specifically set out to protect the mentally ill from discrimination in the workplace (Steckner 1). The problem is that Arizona does not classify a mental illness as an actual disability. The lack of sufficient laws has allowed corporations to unfairly discriminate against or terminate employees with mental impairments and leaves the employee without a real court case. If the current laws were sufficient, they would protect the mentally ill from job discrimination, provide on the job accommodations to make working easier, and in case of on-the-job discrimination, provide help in any lawsuit. In Arizona, any discrimination suit brought against an employer for a mental disability can not be prosecuted through the attorney general. They must go through the federal court system, which is often a much longer process that is much more expensive, and overall, inconvenient. Many bills have been introduced, hoping to change the laws, but they have been killed every time. Under the new proposed law, the term “mental impairment” will be added to the current disability law, covering mental illness as a disability. Also, mental, laws, accommodations, mentally, job, make, discrimination, against, people, law, disorder, disability, corporations, workplace, protect, ill, court, cases, business, been, arizona, afraid, ada, work, steckner, someone, provide, out, much, money, illness, frivolous, employment, employees, employee