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September 16, 2010

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EEOC Enforcing ADAAA Before Final Regs

With three lawsuits already filed, the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) has begun "vigorously" (in its words) enforcing the Americans With Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAAA), this despite the fact that final regulations have yet to be issued for the ADAAA. According to the EEOC, the cases were all filed under the broader definition of "disability" created by t...

August 24, 2010

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Disability Claims Filed with EEOC Reach Record High

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With the augmentation of the Americans With Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAAA), the original ADA was used 21,500 times in 2009 to file disability discrimination claims against employers, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) statistics show. The ADAAA was instrumental in restoring the original intent of Congress behind the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act, whose 20th anniversary c...

July 29, 2010

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DOJ Issues New ADA Rules, Plus a Notice on the Web, 911 Services and Movie Captioning

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On Monday, July 26, 2010, which was the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued new final regulations regarding service animals and the use of Segways (mobility devices). Dogs and miniature horses individually trained to mitigate the effects of a disability are now the only animals that qualify as service animals...

July 26, 2010

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Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Turns 20 Today (July 26)

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It was 20 years ago today (July 26, 2010, then 1990) that President George H.W. Bush signed into law the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). After court decisions had whittled down the scope of the ADA through the years, Congress sought to restore the robust ADA that the authors had envisioned and in 2008 passed the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), which is to this day awaiting the appro...

March 8, 2010

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ADAAA Cited in Detroit Lawsuit Settlement

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The City of Detroit recently settled an Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuit filed by an employee who unsuccessfully sought a reasonable accommodation because a coworker's perfume made it difficult for her to breathe. Now, one might conclude that a municipality may have more inclination to settle than fight since it's using OPM (other people's money), whereas a private employ...

November 23, 2009

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Courts Agree Rehab Act Covers Contractors

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The Ninth Circuit Court recently ruled that, unlike the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) which covers only those who are in an employee-employer relationship, the Rehabilitation Act is worded more loosely to cover any "otherwise qualified individual." Thus in reviewing a lawsuit against a hospital, the court ruled in favor of an independent contractor who claimed he had been deni...

October 12, 2009

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EEOC to Hold Town Hall Meetings on Proposed ADAAA Regs

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The EEOC and DOJ's Civil Rights Division will hold four town hall meetings throughout the nation to share information and gather comments about proposed regulations in the recently enacted Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act. Each town hall meeting will consist of two sessions, one for disability advocates and one for the employer community, offering opportunities for both the business a...

January 13, 2009

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Businesses Fear His Very Sight

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Tom Mundy earns a princely income in California by going around to various business establishments with an eye to finding violations of the ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act), usually related to accessibility issues. In one instance, the condiments counter at a fast food joint was one inch too high to be properly accessible. So what did Mundy, who himself is disabled and in a wheelchair, do?...

December 17, 2008

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ADA Amendments Act Will Greet the New Year

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The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), originally passed in 1990, sought to open up employment in the private sector to persons with physical or mental disabilities who were otherwise perfectly capable of performing the required duties. The ADA brought to private enterprise what the 1973 Rehabilitation Act did for federal agencies and firms carrying out federal contracts. Through the years...

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