For example: An employer may not exclude a person with a vision impairment from a job that requires a great deal of reading because of concern that the strain of heavy reading may further...
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4. The assessment of risk must be based on objective medical or other evidence related to a particular individual
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Risk Cannot be Speculative or Remote
An employer may use such information to exclude an individual with a disability where there is specific medical documentation, reflecting current medical knowledge, that this individual...
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3.5 Some Examples of Reasonable Accommodation
3.5 Some Examples of Reasonable Accommodation The statute and EEOC's regulations provide examples of common types of reasonable accommodation that an employer may be required to provide...
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Typical examples of reasonable accommodations are:
If the employer has an employee parking lot, reserving a parking space close to the entrance for an employee who has difficulty walking because of the loss of a leg, foot, or toe....
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Work Areas (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
Work Areas Proposed paragraph 36.401(b) addressed access to employment areas, rather than to the areas where goods or services are being provided....
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I. The Disabilities Convention and U.S. Disability Rights Law
The ADA and title V of the Rehabilitation Act provide a comprehensive framework, covering employment, transportation, public accommodations, telephone service, and all the activities of...
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FEDERAL LAWS
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504) and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (Title II) are federal civil rights laws that prohibit disability discrimination,...
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31. Academic adjustments
Paragraph (a) of §104.44 requires that a recipient make certain adjustments to academic requirements and practices that discriminate or have the effect of discriminating on the basis of...
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A. Background
. § 12188(b)(1), to investigate complaints and bring a civil action under Title III where a pattern or practice of discrimination is believed to exist or where a matter of general public...
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Department of HHS Dear Colleague Letter: Guidance and Resources for Electronic Information Technology: Ensuring Equal Access to All Health Services and Benefits Provided Through Electronic Means
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) ensures that individuals have equal access to benefits and services and are not subject to unlawful discrimination...
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UNICEF: Disability and Child Protection
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Access to Independence of Cortland County, Inc. (ATI) - Cortland, NY
Vision Access to Independence will lead the community towards an all-inclusive future where discrimination and barriers no longer exist....
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BACKGROUND
In sum, the United States states that these failures constitute a pattern or practice of discrimination and unlawful discrimination that raises an issue of general public importance. 42...
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FACTS APPLICABLE TO ALL CLAIMS
As a result of Defendant's policies and practices with regard to curb ramps in the City's pedestrian right of way, people with mobility disabilities have been discriminated against and denied...
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Relationship to Other Laws
The Department recognizes that public entities subject to title II of the ADA may also be subject to title I of the ADA, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment...
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In this lawsuit, the United States alleged that Cinemark committed a pattern or practice of discrimination in violation of Title III of the ADA by (1) failing to design and construct its...
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B. The Release Includes State and Local Law Claims Which Are Not Addressed By The Agreements
For example, Florida law provides that disability discrimination by places of public accommodation gives rise to cause of action for "compensatory damages, including . . . mental anguish...
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Will the Voting Rights Act expire?
The rest of the Voting Rights Act also will continue to prohibit discrimination in voting....
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10. Voluntary action
urged that paragraphs (a) and (b) be revised to require remedial action to overcome effects of prior discriminatory practices regardless of whether there has been an express finding of discrimination...
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A.1. - What is Section 508?
agencies provide reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities, provide program access to members of the public with disabilities, and take other actions necessary to prevent discrimination...
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C. Executive Order 13132: Federalism
The ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in the provision of transportation services. See 42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq....
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PART 1: OVERVIEW AND GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) is a federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in every day activities, including medical...
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k) Self-Evaluation/Transition Plan
part, that: No person in the State of California shall, on the basis of . . . disability, be unlawfully denied full and equal access to the benefits of, or be unlawfully subjected to discrimination...
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Record of a disability
But, even if a student with a disability does not need services, the student is protected from disability-based discrimination under Section 504’s general non-discrimination requirements...
