DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, July 9, 2014
-- Australia to find out if deaf can serve on jury
Australia discriminates against the deaf that want to serve
on jury. There is an experiment that will take place soon.
It will be a fake trial this week with everybody in the
courtroom, including the fake jury that has a deaf person
in it with an interpreter. This will be reviewed by people
in the legal field - to see if the deaf could really serve
on the real jury! Seems the Australians don't believe
the Americans, which allow the deaf to serve on jury, and
want to see for themselves.
-- Labor Department orders contractors to consider deaf applicants
Contractors, with over 100 employees that do business with
the federal government, are required to hire deaf/disabled
employees equal to seven percent of its labor force. What this
means is that big contractors (AT&T, Dell, Big Oil companies,
etc) must hire more disabled people. Hopefully this means
more deaf employees. This is a new rule that was established
few months ago. So far, it is working out for the disabled,
but not sure for the deaf.
-- a restaurant editor sees a big deaf trend
Few days ago DeafDigest mentioned a new restaurant in
Toronto that has an all-deaf staff. A newspaper food and
restaurant editor said it is a new trend - of more new
restaurants becoming all-deaf, not just in Asia but also
in Europe as well as in USA. He pointed out that it makes
sense - because deaf employees tend to stay in the same
restaurant job for a long time while hearing employees
tend to quit all the time.
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