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12111(2) Covered entity
(2) Covered entity The term "covered entity" means an employer, employment agency, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee....
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The ADA and Department of Justice Regulations
The ADA broadly protects the rights of individuals with disabilities in employment, access to state and local government services, places of public accommodation, transportation, and other...
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Process of Determining the Appropriate Reasonable Accommodation
Process of Determining the Appropriate Reasonable Accommodation Once an individual with a disability has requested provision of a reasonable accommodation, the employer must make a reasonable...
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Grievance Procedure under The Americans with Disabilities Act
It may be used by anyone who wishes to file a complaint alleging discrimination on the basis of disability in the provision of services, activities, programs, or benefits by the [name of...
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Phase I: Education and Labor Committee
Congressmen Hoyer and Bartlett addressed another persistent concern of employers by adding tougher language for drug and alcohol abuse....
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12111(8) Qualified individual
(8) Qualified individual The term "qualified individual" means an individual who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the employment position...
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12111(4) Employee
--The term employee means an individual employed by an employer....
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12111(4) Employee
(4) Employee The term "employee" means an individual employed by an employer....
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7.6 Training
If an employer contracts for training with a training company, or contracts for training facilities such as hotels or conference centers, the employer is responsible for assuring accessibility...
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3.9 The Undue Hardship Limitation
An accommodation that poses an undue hardship for one employer at a particular time may not pose an undue hardship for another employer, or even for the same employer at another time....
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24. Is it a reasonable accommodation to modify a workplace policy?
But, reasonable accommodation only requires that the employer modify the policy for an employee who requires such action because of a disability; therefore, the employer may continue to...
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12101(a)(4)
(4) unlike individuals who have experienced discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, or age, individuals who have experienced discrimination on the basis...
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8.7 Efforts to Prohibit Drug and Alcohol Use in the Workplace
The Act specifically provides that an employer may: prohibit the use of drugs and alcohol in the workplace....
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4. Who is allowed to have information about employees needing assistance in an emergency?
The ADA has provisions that require employers to keep medical information about applicants and employees confidential....
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UNDUE HARDSHIP ISSUES
An employer does not have to provide a reasonable accommodation that would cause an "undue hardship" to the employer....
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Posting Notices
Posting Notices An employer must post notices concerning the provisions of the ADA. The notices must be accessible, as needed, to persons with visual or other reading disabilities....
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12111(8) Qualified individual with a disability
.-- The term qualified individual with a disability means an individual with a disability who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the employment...
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Section 1630.2(k) Record of a Substantially Limiting Impairment
This provision also ensures that individuals are not discriminated against because they have been misclassified as disabled....
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Reassignment
Thus, the employer does not have to provide training so that the employee acquires necessary skills to take a job.(79) The employer, however, would have to provide an employee with a disability...
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A. Statutory and rulemaking history
Bush signed into law the ADA, a comprehensive civil rights law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability....
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7.8 Compensation
7.8 Compensation An employer cannot reduce pay to an employee with a disability because of the elimination of a marginal job function or because it has provided a reasonable accommodation...
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Job Accommodation Network
This first-of-its-kind technical assistance center provides free, expert and confidential guidance on workplace accommodations and disability employment issues....
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Other Cost Issues
Instead, Congress clearly established that the focus for determining undue hardship should be the resources available to the employer....