Does Employers Really Treat Everyone Equal

Into day's society we are always talking about equal opportunities and that every man, woman and child, animal and mineral have the same rights. But do we really?

When a person with a disability goes for a job does the employer really want to employ them. Would the employer overlook that person for some one else, a "normal" person! Who may have less experience and qualification but would be at their desk everyday.

Are visible disabilities easier for people to cope with than invisible ones? Do people react differently if they can see the wheelchair, an arm missing, a leg missing or if there's a white cane. But having something that society can't see like diabetic, lupus, sickle cell, thalassemia, and many more, whereby the person may need time off work, or the person can cope with certain things because of the way society as set them up. Does society look on people with hide disabilities, as lazy, liars and just seeking attention?

Due to the Thatcher era, capitalisation is the name of the game, how much money can we make, in as little time as possible. So people with disabilities are seen as a hindrance, people that lose the company money. But those "normal" people that will take a day off work, just because they sneezed are ok, a person with a disability will be in an enormous amount of pain, but will still go to work because they are scared of being made unemployed.

How many people with disabilities will be over looked for promotion, or bullied out of their job, because of an illness that they can not control. I know of someone who partner has cancer, and as worked for their organisations for 15 years, but now the organisation is asking him to take early redundancy. He doesn't want to but will they start to exclude him from important meetings, reducing his workload and not filling him in with the important information, make him feel uncomfortable, so he will leave.

Employers give feeble excuses that funding is running out or they have to cut back on staff. I have a friend that got lupus she was a secretary for a group of solicitors. Her English was excellent, her ability was great, all the other secretaries and bosses would go to her for advice. But because she had lupus it meant that she had to take time off for appointments, there would be days when she would go to work in pain and really ill, they would have to send her home. There were times when she was in hospital for weeks at

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