FAA Targets Hiring Those with Severe Intellectual Disabilities

Very good or very foolish?

The FAA makes clear who it includes in the NY !Diversity Nation: It touts that it specifically “targets” for “special emphasis,” in both recruiting and hiring, people with disabilities in “hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”

Such  applicants are eligible for preferential hiring. The FAA calls this “On-the-Spot hiring” which is a “non-competitive hiring method.”