this process a smoother one. Elderly employees will have to continually be trained and re-trained so that they become more compatible with the person-organization fit that so many corporations are now stressing and will stress in the future. Unfortunately, people with disabilities have been excluded from the workforce in the past. As a result, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act. This Act in which the key provisions began to take place in 1992, has prompted thousands of U.S. workers to file discrimination complaints against their employers which over time could bring profound changes to the workplace. Many of thee complaints are bringing new issues to the table with regards to how far an organization must go to accommodate every type of disabled person. Through the efforts of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, many restaurants, movie theatres, libraries, malls, and many other public places are being scoured to find possible infractions of ADA non-compliance. Nearly 80,000 complaints are being filed annually with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging discrimination, far surpassing the number of complaints filed by women and minorities in the first year after those groups were extended civil rights protection in 1964. The litigation efforts undertaken by the EEOC has been able to recover over 50 million dollars for victims of discrimination and rose to an all time high in 1997 when it reached 111 million (www.eeoc.gov). Maybe its human nature not to do anything until you get caught short. But the increasing number of violations should be enough to initiate change that will accommodate the disabled. The last group to be examined is foreign workers. Unfortunately, have an unjustifiable history of being scapegoated for any economic...
