AIDS is no longer the automatic death sentence that it used to be.
             Currently many people who have AIDS are living full lives including the
             pursuit of career goals. Hospitality Management is a popular career goal in
             the world today, therefore there are going to be issues of how to handle
             AIDS questions in the workplace, from a co-worker standpoint as well as a
             customer standpoint. Education and precautions are the best tools in the
             "Experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) believe that every
             U.S. company will have at least one employee with Acquired Immune
             Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) at some point. Some experts have even predicted
             that AIDS will become the number one problem facing American businesses in
             coming years (Naglieri 1987). Therefore, small businesses must learn to
             deal proactively with the issue of AIDS in the workplace(Briney, 1992)."
             The largest problem confronting business owners who have employees with
             AIDS is absenteeism. People who have AIDS average more than two weeks a
             year in the hospital at a cost of approximately $1,000 a day. The need to
             cover shifts while they are gone, coupled with the cost of medical care can
             place a burden on many businesses including the hospitality industry.
             "Another problem is what to do when it appears that an infected employee
             can no longer perform an assigned job adequately. The solution varies
             according to the job. When a job requires physical exertion, such as
             construction work or athletics, one is affected by the AIDS virus
             differently than when the job is more intellectual in nature. In some
             instances, an organization may be able to transfer a worker to another job
             which will accommodate his or her condition better, but still the worker
             with AIDS will eventually have to stop working(Townsend, 1997)."
             Having AIDS does carry with it psychological difficulties. There is often
             anger, denial, concern, guilt and other emotions...