The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)

Americans with Disabilities Act The Americans with Disabilities act was created to empower people with disabilities. The act was signed by President George H.W. Bush on July 26th 1990. This act allows individuals with disabilities to become an active part of society. The ADA provides civil rights in addition, it guaranties equal opportunities, “The ADA states, in making hiring and employment decisions, it is basically illegal to discriminate against anyone because of a disability” (Steingold, 2013, p. 232). In 2008 President George W Bush signed an amendment in order provides clarification to the term “disability”. Employers with 15 or more employees, employment agencies, labor organizations and joint labor-management committees and local
The ADA covers an employer with operations in other countries if the employer is incorporated in the United States, based in the United States or controlled by a U.S. company. However, an employer is exempt from the ADA’s requirements if complying with the ADA would violate a law of the country in which it operates. The ADA signed in 1990 states that a disability is when impairment substantially prevents one or more major life activities. The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendment Act, which was signed in 2008, brings clarification of the statement. Some of the specifications are, taking care of oneself, performing manual task, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, and many others. The plan also extends to family members. An employee or applicant who has a spouse or dependent with a disability, are covered under the law and employers may not discriminate against them.
Covered Individuals and
There are some conditions that are not covered under the ADA. (Guerin, p. 44) ‘The EEOC”s regulations say specifically that the following are not disabilities: transvestism, transsexualism, pedophilia, gender identity disorder (other than those that result from a physical impairment), others sexual behavior disorders, compulsive gambling, kleptomania, pyromania, psychoactive substance use disorders from current illegal drug use, homosexuality and bisexuality”
Exclusion to the ADA includes employees who currently utilize illegal drugs; however, if an employee or applicant has either successfully completed or enrolled in rehabilitation program and is no longer using illegal drugs, they are under the protection of the