HSM Law Profile
HSM Law Profile
Kay Wehner
HSM/230
June 29, 2014
Kimberly Cowburn
HSM Law Profile Americans with Disabilities Act
“The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications, and governmental activities. The ADA also establishes requirements for telecommunications relay services,” (Perez, T. E.).
The ADA was developed in 1990 to stop any form of discrimination against anyone with a disability, which includes all aspects of one’s personal, social, and public living which consists of their education (schools), employment, transportation, as well as with all public and private facilities that other individuals …show more content…
Employers are required to make available the reasonable accommodations to employees or applicants that qualify. Reasonable accommodation consist of the different changes needed in order to accommodate the employees with disabilities without causing difficulty, and/or excessive expense to the employer. Employers must comply too this law if they employ 15 or more employees. Title I regulations defines disability, and establishes guidelines that process sensible accommodations, addresses inquiries, and medical examinations, as well as defines when there is a possibility for significant risks of major harm to one’s health or safety of the employees with a disabilities. (Regulated and enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity …show more content…
110-325)
Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law: http://www.bazelon.org/issues/disabilityrights/judicialnominees/Sotomayor6--09.htm
National Council on Disability, Equality of Opportunity: The Making of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 1997, p. 5 (hereafter cited as NCD, Equality of Opportunity).
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY, EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY: THE MAKING OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (1997) [hereinafter EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY]; Chai Feldblum, Medical Examinations and Inquiries under the Americans with Disabilities Act: A View from the Inside, 64 TEMP. L. REV. 521 (1991); Colker, Fragile Compromise, supra note 6, at 385. See also Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Historical Background of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 64 TEMP. L. REV. 387, 391–92 (1991)
Regulation to Implement the Equal Employment Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, As Amended; Notice of Proposed Rule Making, 74 Fed. Reg. 183 (23 September 2009).
The American Association of People with Disabilities:
Kay Wehner
HSM/230
June 29, 2014
Kimberly Cowburn
HSM Law Profile Americans with Disabilities Act
“The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications, and governmental activities. The ADA also establishes requirements for telecommunications relay services,” (Perez, T. E.).
The ADA was developed in 1990 to stop any form of discrimination against anyone with a disability, which includes all aspects of one’s personal, social, and public living which consists of their education (schools), employment, transportation, as well as with all public and private facilities that other individuals …show more content…
Employers are required to make available the reasonable accommodations to employees or applicants that qualify. Reasonable accommodation consist of the different changes needed in order to accommodate the employees with disabilities without causing difficulty, and/or excessive expense to the employer. Employers must comply too this law if they employ 15 or more employees. Title I regulations defines disability, and establishes guidelines that process sensible accommodations, addresses inquiries, and medical examinations, as well as defines when there is a possibility for significant risks of major harm to one’s health or safety of the employees with a disabilities. (Regulated and enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity …show more content…
110-325)
Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law: http://www.bazelon.org/issues/disabilityrights/judicialnominees/Sotomayor6--09.htm
National Council on Disability, Equality of Opportunity: The Making of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 1997, p. 5 (hereafter cited as NCD, Equality of Opportunity).
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY, EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY: THE MAKING OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (1997) [hereinafter EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY]; Chai Feldblum, Medical Examinations and Inquiries under the Americans with Disabilities Act: A View from the Inside, 64 TEMP. L. REV. 521 (1991); Colker, Fragile Compromise, supra note 6, at 385. See also Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Historical Background of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 64 TEMP. L. REV. 387, 391–92 (1991)
Regulation to Implement the Equal Employment Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, As Amended; Notice of Proposed Rule Making, 74 Fed. Reg. 183 (23 September 2009).
The American Association of People with Disabilities: