Labor/Employment,
Civil Rights
Apr. 13, 2011
We’re All Individuals With Disabilities Now
New amendments to the Americans With Disabilities Act zeroes in on employers who question whether their employees have disabilities.
D. Gregory Valenza
Partner, Shaw Valenza
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission just issued final regulations interpreting the Americans With Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. The new regulations are published at 29 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 1630, and take effect on May 14. Employers and their lawyers should become familiar with the commission's new interpretation of the definition of "disability."
Title I of the original ADA of 1990, the employment-related provisions, took effect in 1992. The law in...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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