AIDS/HIV Infection and the Workplace
Title | AIDS/HIV Infection and the Workplace PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | AIDS (Disease) |
ISBN |
HIV/AIDS
Title | HIV/AIDS PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | AIDS (Disease) |
ISBN |
Organizing Aids
Title | Organizing Aids PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Adam-Smith |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2005-06-28 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1135747628 |
It has been estimated that 90% of those who are HIV positive are in employment. This text provides a historical and international review of the theoretical and practical issues which bear upon organisational responses to HIV/AIDS.
AIDS in the Workplace
Title | AIDS in the Workplace PDF eBook |
Author | William F. Banta |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780669280562 |
Health experts estimate that one million people in the United States are HIV positive, but new medical treatments allow many to work for years after contracting the AIDS virus. Drawing on the most comprehensive and up-to-date information now available on the complex legal and ethical issues related to AIDS, attorney William F. Banta explains employers', employees', and applicants' rights and responsibilities as defined by the new Americans with Disabilities Act, OSHA, COBRA, the National Labor Relations Act, state and local laws, arbitration awards, and the Centers for Disease Control. He clarifies the complex issues of hiring, firing, insuring, and testing applicants and employees with the AIDS virus. More than any other group of employees, physicians, nurses, dentists, and other health care workers have generated concern about transmitting or acquiring HIV on the job. While the risk of actual infection is very low for medical practitioners, and even more remote for patients, health care employers should develop policies and procedures to guide them through complex and sensitive situations and limit their liability in the event of a legal challenge. They must balance the infected employee's right to work against the obligation to protect the patient. They must weigh the obligation to treat infected patients against the right of employees to safe working conditions. They must consider the right of an employee or patient to know the HIV condition of the other, as well as the infected person's right to confidentiality. William Banta cuts through the medical, legal, and ethical morass to analyze these matters with clarity. The extensive appendix of laws and regulations, governmentrecommendations, checklists, and sample policies will assist readers in developing or evaluating their own workplace procedures. Workers who are HIV positive, managers, union officials, attorneys, and physicians, will find valuable advice on one of the most urgent problems of the 1990s.
HIV/AIDS and the World of Work
Title | HIV/AIDS and the World of Work PDF eBook |
Author | International Labour Office |
Publisher | International Labour Organization |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | AIDS (Disease) |
ISBN | 9789220218976 |
The present bilingual volume contains the English and French versions of the proposed Recommendation on HIV/AIDS and the world of work, amended in the light of the observations made by governments and by employers' and workers' organizations and for the reasons set out in the Office commentaries.
Managing AIDS in the Workplace
Title | Managing AIDS in the Workplace PDF eBook |
Author | David Sanks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | AIDS (Disease) |
ISBN |
HIV and AIDS in the Workplace
Title | HIV and AIDS in the Workplace PDF eBook |
Author | Marion Maguire |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 2007-09-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3638747336 |
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, grade: 1.0 (A), Hawai'i Pacific University (-), course: Lecture MBA Program, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the business environment HIV and AIDS has become both a health and an economic problem. As the epidemic spreads throughout the workforce, Human resources personnel and managers in general must be prepared to deal effectively with the challenge of having employees who are affected by HIV and AIDS. The majority of large U.S. corporations already employ a substantial number of people who have AIDS or are infected with HIV. Integration of HIV and AIDS programs into human resources management systems should be viewed as a means to achieve overall effective human resource management and to reduce costs. Currently, only 16% of U.S. businesses offer AIDS/HIV workplace education programs to their employees. In order to deal with this issue effectively, managers need to know how HIV is transmitted, the stages of the disease, how to prevent discrimination against employees who have AIDS or are infected with HIV, and what accommodations must be provided for such workers under the ADA and other laws. They also need to learn how to manage the psychological climate of work groups that have employees with HIV or AIDS to prevent workplace disruptions. Statement of the problem HIV and AIDS have become a serious problem in all five continents. HIV continues to spread around the world and global statistics show that 34.3 million people are living with HIV in 2003, in comparison to 5.4 million in 1999. The virus impacts not only the internal system of an individual's body, but also does the infection rate affects business and the workplace. Health records show that on average HIV-infected employees have taken seventeen full days of sick leave. The cost of absenteeism, provision of hospital and medical care, training and wages for new employee's replacem