Ensuring Equal Work Rights for Employees with Disabilities: A Case Study of Dismissal of an Employee with Down's Syndrome by Company Y

This article explores how to ensure equal employment rights for people with disabilities by analyzing the case of Marlo Speth, a female employee with Down syndrome who was fired by company Y. The article first introduces the background of the case, Speth worked in company Y for 16 years due to the company's adjustment of the work schedule and difficult to adapt to frequent late absenteeism, and eventually was fired by the company. Speth then filed a complaint with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the court ruled that company Y violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and was required to pay Speth substantial damages. This paper analyzes the main ethical issue of the case is labor discrimination, analyzes the stakeholders of the case, and makes moral reasoning on company Y's behavior from two angles of utilitarianism and rightalism. Finally, the article concludes that what company Y has done violates corporate ethics, and puts forward several suggestions, including improving the employment awareness of the disabled, providing personalized employment support, and establishing a benign employment mechanism for the disabled.