Inclusion of People with Disabilities, A Story of Sheep and Wolves
Ileana Hieber Hernández is a Pedagogue from Anáhuac University North, Diploma in Inclusion of People with Disabilities from Anáhuac University North, Master’s in Integration of People with Disabilities. Quality of Life, University of Salamanca Spain, Student of the Diploma in Human Resources, Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare.
Let’s talk about laws…
I still have the same question: Why are people with disabilities denied in recruitment processes by companies in Mexico?
In countries like Spain, there are laws where each company must have at least 2% of its employees with some kind of disability, and if they do not comply, there are no other options. Countries like Mexico barely require 1% by “law” of people hired with some disability. In companies like Bimbo or Coca Cola, which have over seventy and ninety thousand employees, 1% is barely seven hundred employees with disabilities.
The law sets this hiring quota; however, for Mexico and other Latin American countries, laws are like toilet paper—they always end up in the trash.
But in the labor field in Latin America, especially in Mexico, with whom do people with disabilities compete?
People with disabilities who want to work in a company or foundation do not compete or are compared with other candidates with disabilities. This would be fair because a person with a disability would always win! No, dear ones, we compete with eight or ten wolves without disabilities, and in the end, the wolves will always win, and the sheep will be devoured!
I am telling you clearly with proven facts in hand that to a professional without a disability, dear ones, we are living in a world full of advancements, full of “human rights,” but in the end, it is governed by the law of the jungle. The strong eat the weak, they get hired in job positions, they succeed, they are successful, they get promoted, earn more money, get married, and the weak grow old, are poor, generate more poverty, and are an eternal family burden.
This has to end. Companies need to take real social responsibility with their environment and determine a number of vacancies where only people with disabilities compete, thus ensuring the hiring of people with disabilities for a more inclusive, equitable, and just world.
Ileana Hieber Hernández
Instagram: @ileana_hieber
Language: Spanish
