AZFS represents people with disabilities whose civil rights have been violated. It identifies and dismantles barriers in partnership with a broad network with llient organizations, representing people with the full spectrum of disabilities, including mobility, sensory, cognitive, and psychiatric.
Some examples of disability discrimination may include: Discriminating on the basis of physical or mental disability in various aspects of employment, including: recruitment, firing, hiring, training, job assignments, promotions, pay, benefits, lay off, leave and all other employment-related activities.
Quite simply, anyone and everyone can be an advocate! Advocacy is the number-one way that nonprofits and community-based organizations advance social change that affects the people they serve. Disability discrimination also occurs when a covered employer or other entity treats an applicant or employee less favorably because he or she has a history of a disability (such as a past major depressive episode) or because he or she is believed to have a physical or mental impairment that is not transitory (lasting …
How to prove disability discrimination
- By showing you have a physical impairment that substantially limits a major life activity;
- By showing that you have a record of a physical impairment; or.
- By showing that you are regarded as having a physical impairment.
Zaydyn Anderson Austin
Public Interest Legal Aid
Paralegal Consultant Specialist
Arizona Family Solutions LLc Legal Aid
Phone (623)500-8422
E-mail Azfamilysolutions@gmail.com
