Oh yeah, and it ain’t cheap:
It could cost U.S. employers between $2 billion and $4 billion to comply with an obscure Americans with Disabilities Act regulation meant to protect workers who are gun-shy in public restrooms.
According to an informal discussion letter the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued in August 2011, “paruresis” — more commonly known as “shy bladder syndrome” — qualifies as a disability under the amended Americans with Disabilities Act.
The International Paruresis Association defines the odd affliction as the “inability to urinate with others present.” The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the gold-standard of psychiatrists, categorizes it as a social phobia that affects roughly seven percent of the population — approximately 17 million Americans.
The Association alleges that thousands of people who are afflicted by paruresis have been unfairly fired because of their inability to urinate in a public restroom during random drug screening tests.
Continue reading the report, via the Daily Caller
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copatriots
May. 10, 2012 at 5:09pmDoes anyone but me just want to SCREAM at the insanity? Seriously, ADA for wanting privacy when you go to the bathroom??? How ’bout we start by keeping the MENS and WOMENS rooms separate?
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A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
May. 10, 2012 at 3:15pm“The Association alleges that thousands of people who are afflicted by paruresis have been unfairly fired because of their inability to urinate in a public restroom during random drug screening tests.”
LOL! Yeah, right.
I think entrepreneurs should get a pass for having “Concern for Company Image Syndrome”. It’s where employers expect their hires to not be liabilities.
Have you noticed that many syndromes simply describe behaviors, rather than attempt to describe the causes of those behaviors? ANY behavior can be a syndrome.
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