[155966] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Color vision for network techs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake Dunlap)
Fri Aug 31 14:40:47 2012
In-Reply-To: <17264.1346438010@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Blake Dunlap <ikiris@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:39:58 -0500
To: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:33 PM, <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:27:28 -0700, JC Dill said:
>
> > So if you DO decide to test for color vision, make sure you know your
> > rights and responsibilities for handling any employee or applicant who
> > fails the test.
>
> There's something to be said for doing the test anyhow, and being prepared
> to deploy the accommodations, rather than find out the hard way that
> you have a problem after you've hired them and they've been doing splices
> for a while....
>
That's still asking for a lawsuit if its prior to job offer.
-Blake
