BBC News has published an article about a Deaf construction worker’s job hunt, which gives a sense of the barriers faced by Deaf people in the current job market.
Jack Griffiths, from Wales, described losing jobs because of what he was told were ‘risk levels,’ before going through several years of unemployment. The story has a positive ending though, when he met a more positive employer.
Read the article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-40495692
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Tim
July 10, 2017
Sorry, but Matt, not AOHL is the star here AOHL cut their employment advisory service right down to the bone, with only a few people left to cover the whole of Wales.
AOHL – stop paying hundreds of thousands to hearing executive staff and start hiring more employment advisers. And do more to defend the social security rights of deaf people.
Jimmy Hughes
July 12, 2017
You are absolutely right Tim. This represents a lost decade now. When austerity bit RNID cut employment services for deaf people cruelly pulling the safety net under us. They have a responsibility as the only nationally recognised charity for deaf adults.
But they wanted to focus on research on improving research into hearing loss hence the change of name.
This is nothing new the same problems have existed since 2008 and if they had listened to us we’d be operating from a higher benchmark.
We have to seriously question their agenda as they are the most important government lobbyists on behalf of adult deaf people.
Few so called “success” stories masks how deep this unemployment iceberg is for deaf people. Why should we beg for jobs when it should be a human right?
pennybsl
July 13, 2017
Demoralising is exactly the word for many of us Deaf people during arid times of unemployment, or to be frank, under-employed times.
We need radical changes in charities supposing to ‘help’ deaf people by increasing user-led involvement and user-led leadership.
Dual deaf-hearing leadership with the onus of better outcomes for deaf people.
We need authority recognition of the value of qualified & skilled Deaf people in the workplace.
We need Access to Work to be more user-friendly with security elements.
Simple: Deaf, and our fellow Disabled peers, are entitled to have work, earn a living, play an active part in society, pay taxes and to feel useful all around.