Mary Gleason - Disability

Disability - physical and mental illness

Someone who is temporarily disabled accommodations are easier

We have benefit programs in place, progressive return to work

with a view to getting the person back to work at their pre-injury job

Where a person's injuries are such that they cannot do their job or even part of their job

The task of finding accommodated work becomes more difficult.

And if it's on a permanent basis it's more challenging for the employer

because you're looking for a permanent solution rather than a temporary one

So it's more the reality of the search for accommodated work and the permanency

Mental health issues are still not as well accepted in a lot of workplaces

There's more discrimination still in people's minds even though

They're not overt about it, they have a hard time getting their heads around

the realities of mental illness, the various facets of it

And are probably not that well educated about different sorts of diseases.

Part of mental illness makes people suffering from it difficult to deal with as well.

That overlays some of the issues. That makes those difficult cases

that have to be dealth with sensitively from everyone's perspective