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Enabling Safe Evacuations
The article says that The Americans with Disabilities Act ADA requires employers to modify their policies and procedures to include people with disabilities. These requirements apply also to evacuation plans. Employers may be required to provide reasonable accommodations to employees so they can evacuate during emergencies.Some employers may be leery...
Tags: Society For Human Resource Management, Americans With Disabilities Act, Employer, Disability, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
Case studies 2002-01-01
Did Employer Violate ADA when It Discharged Suicidal Employee?
The article answers the question Did Employer Violate ADA when It Discharged Suicidal Employee? The appeals court concurred with the district court's decision, adding that the ADA "does not require employers to take unnecessary risks when dealing with a mentally or physically impaired employee in an inherently dangerous job. ...
Tags: Americans With Disabilities Act, HR Web Centre, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
White papers 2001-07-24
EEOC Issues ADA Handbook for Employers
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC has issued a handbook to help employers comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA. The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Primer for Small Business is designed to be a user-friendly guide for small employers to the basic requirements of the ADA. ...
Tags: Americans With Disabilities Act, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
White papers 2002-09-05
ADA and Small Business
The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits disability discrimination in employment for employers with 15 or more employees. The prohibition is far-reaching and covers hiring, firing, and everything in between, such as promotions, benefits, and harassment in the workplace.
Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Americans With Disabilities Act, Small Business, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Harassment, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
White papers 2003-06-03
Reassignment as 'Reasonable Accommodation' Under ADA
The Americans with Disabilities Act ADA is a complex and sometimes ambiguous law, difficult for both employers and courts to interpret. One important ADA question is what accommodations must an employer make for a disabled applicant or employee? And beyond that, what accommodation amount to what the ADA calls a...
Tags: Accommodation, Americans With Disabilities Act, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
White papers 2002-08-21
Can Applicants Be Rejected Because Workplace Threatens Them?
The case study answers the question Can an employer deny a worker a job because it is pretty sure that the job will be a serious danger to him? Or does a worker have the right to deliberately and knowingly assume that danger, in essence saying "I know the risks...
Tags: Workplace, Americans With Disabilities Act, HR Web Centre, Worker, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
Case studies 2002-05-22
Are your Web Pages ADA Compliant?
Most companies are aware of their ADA responsibilities regarding physical facilities and work-related accommodations. However, many are not aware that the ADA also extends to the accessibility of their Web pages.Read more…
Tags: Web, Americans With Disabilities Act, HR Web Centre, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
Case studies 2002-05-01
Managing Workers With Disabilities
The ADA and many state laws protect the rights of employees and job applicants who are disabled. Well written, carefully followed policies will help you steer clear of ADA violations and claims The Americans with Disabilities Act ADA prohibits employers with 15 or more employees from discriminating against a qualified...
Tags: Accommodation, Americans With Disabilities Act, Worker, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
White papers 2002-08-26
Americans with Disabilities Act basics
It is important to understand the basic provisions and requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act when selecting employees. Here is an overview of accepted hiring practices and legally required accommodation of individuals with disabilities. There are links to the EEOC Equal Employment Opportunities Commission guidance so you can understand...
Tags: Accommodation, Americans With Disabilities Act, HRZone, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
White papers 1998-08-27
The ADA and Pre-employment Medical Inquiries: A Prescription for Compliance
Several courts have held employers liable for improper medical inquiries and assessed them large monetary penalties even though no discrimination took place. To prevent violations, HR professionals should review employment application forms and standard pre-offer interview questions to make sure they do not contain medical inquiries. Further, HR personnel should...
Tags: Americans With Disabilities Act, Compliance, Inquiry, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
White papers 2003-01-01
How Well Do Your Particular Hiring Practices Comply With ADA?
The purpose of the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA is to remove restrictions on the employment of disabled individuals. Your hiring procedures -- application forms, interview techniques, examinations, and job descriptions -- all can leave you vulnerable to ADA liability if you don't have a clear sense of your obligations....
Tags: Hiring, Americans With Disabilities Act, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Workforce Management
White papers 2001-06-15
Avoiding ADA Complaints
The Americans with Disabilities Act ADA extended employment nondiscrimination to "qualified persons with disabilities" The vagueness of some of the words and definitions in the ADA create many opportunities for plaintiffs' attorneys to attack personnel policies. They create many challenges for human resource professionals and for county elected and appointed...
Tags: Americans With Disabilities Act, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
White papers 1997-05-12
Silence Is Golden: telling co-workers about a reasonable accommodation
The Americans with Disabilities Act ADA requires you to provide reasonable accommodations to disabled employees so that they can perform the essential functions of their jobs. The article says that the Human Resource Department should be prepared to handle co-worker inquiries after a reasonable accommodation is provided to another employee....
Tags: Accommodation, Americans With Disabilities Act, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
White papers 2000-10-13
ADA Lawsuit Possibly Squelched Based on Low Employee Numbers
United States Supreme Court examined whether four director-shareholder physicians should be subject to a lawsuit filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA (Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates, P.C. v. Wells, No. 01-1435, Decided: 04/22/03). The issue was whether the four director-shareholder physicians should be counted as ""employees."" Deborah Anne Wells worked...
Tags: Lawsuit, Americans With Disabilities Act, Business & Legal Reports, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
Case studies 2003-04-24
Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act
The ADA guarantees that disabled Americans have the same opportunities and access in the workplace, government programs public accommodations, transportation and telecommunications that other citizens enjoy. To qualify for ADA protection, an individual must have a physical or mental disability that impairs a "major life activity," such as walking, seeing,...
Tags: Americans With Disabilities Act, AllBusiness.com, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
White papers 1999-01-01
Applicability of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Employers who have struggled with the issue of how to handle employee requests for accommodation in the workplace under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"). The federal law passed by Congress in 1990 to protect disabled individuals from employment discrimination will find some welcome clarification of their obligations in three...
Tags: Americans With Disabilities Act, WN & J, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
White papers 1999-08-01
Hiring Employees & The ADA
The employee selection process has become much more challenging for all employers but the key to keeping out of "trouble" is PREPARATION and CONSISTENCY. If you have a realistic, up-to-date Job Description, display the Job Description to all potential candidates and advise all candidates of the format of your selection...
Tags: Hiring, Selection, Americans With Disabilities Act, Profile Evaluation, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Workforce Management
White papers 1997-11-01
Pre-Employment And The ADA: Disability Questions And Medical Exams
From the executive summary: ‘In the past, some employment applications and interviews requested information about an applicant's physical or mental condition. The information was often used to exclude applicants with disabilities before their ability to perform the job was even evaluated. It was observed that applicants were often asked...
Tags: Applicant, Americans With Disabilities Act, Disability, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
Webcasts 2004-05-26
What are the ADA Direct Access Rules
The purpose of this article is to assist 9-1-1 organizations in complying with the TDD/TTY Direct Access mandates of the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA. The primary source of the information for this article being Department of Justice DOJ Settlement Agreements entered into by DOJ and individual 9-1-1 organizations. Additional...
Tags: Microsoft Access, Americans With Disabilities Act, U.S. Department Of Justice, Profile Evaluation, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
White papers 1998-03-01
Employers May Be Liable for a Hostile Work Environment Under the ADA
The ADA protects disabled people from discrimination in employment practices. Specifically, it states that covered employers shall not "discriminate against a qualified individual with a disability because of the disability of such individual in regard to job application procedures, the hiring, advancement, or discharge of employees, employee compensation, job training,...
Tags: Americans With Disabilities Act, Environment, HR Web Centre, Disability, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Job Training, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Workforce Management
White papers 2001-06-05