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		<title><![CDATA[Compliance: Does Your Hospital Or School Comply With ADA Sign Regulations?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1187513]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Life is complicated for individuals living with a disability. For some, physical activity is limited. Others have vision and hearing impairments. Regardless of the disability, navigating a school or hospital should not be one more challenge these individuals have to overcome. A clear and powerful message was sent to the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ADA: Does Your Facility Comply With Sign Regulations?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1187537]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Life is complicated for individuals living with a disability. For some, physical activity is limited. Others have vision and hearing impairments. Regardless of the disability, navigating a school or hospital should not be one more challenge these individuals have to overcome. A clear and powerful message was sent to the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Low Energy Automatic Door Operators For ADA Applications]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1187579]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Common elements to consider for low energy doors for Americans with Disabilities Act ADA applications are: width of door opening, maneuvering clearances, hardware, height of thresholds, and slope of ramps. For doors equipped with low energy power operators, additional requirements are mandated per the ADA standards for compliance to American...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tips For Human Resource (HR) Professionals]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=383973]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Human Resource HR professionals are key players in business organizations' implementation of the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA, which prohibits, among other things, discrimination based on disability in the workplace. HR professionals are involved with recruitment, pre-employment screening and testing, and the reasonable accommodation process, as...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reference And Requests For Information Policy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=344123]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Reference and Requests for Information policy states that all inquiries regarding a present or past employee are to be referred to the Human Resources Department. Only factual information concerning an employee will be released. This information may be confined to confirming that the individual was employed with the company,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Court Ruling That Employer's Integrity Test Violated ADA Could Open Door to Litigation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=170800]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the use of polygraphs in most employment settings was outlawed in 1988, employers have been flocking to integrity or honesty testing as the best way to get behind a prospective employee's resume. As many as 5 million tests are given a year, and the testing industry, which has been...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ADA Issues in Public Schools]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=115467]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Any architect involved with school design over the past decade has become very familiar with the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA; groundbreaking legislation that went into effect in 1992. This legislation impacts countless facets of school design, from doorways to door handles. Although most architects are now thoroughly proficient in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pre-Employment And The ADA: Disability Questions And Medical Exams]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=99521]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Disability Discrimination: Pushing the Limits]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=168469]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A study published by the American Bar Association reports that nearly 95% of lawsuits filed under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act ADA and nearly 80% of administrative claims of disability discrimination are ultimately decided in favor of the defendant. However, at the same time, employers and their HR departments...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[United States: The ADA: More Than An Employment Statute]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=61322]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the ADA the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"), two major guidances and a status report are addressed. Many people view the ADA as an employment statute. A public accommodation is a facility whose operations "affect commerce" and which fall within at least one...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Recent Case Forces Employers to Rethink How They Respond To Accommodation Requests Under The ADA!]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=75434]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This article says that employer should provide the specific reasonable accommodation requested by a disabled employee unless the employee's suggested accommodation presents an undue hardship to the employer's operations. This ruling requires employers to rethink the way they address accommodation requests from employees who work in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Backlash, the Political Economy, and Structural Exclusion]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=168497]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper explores the backlash against and hostility toward the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA by examining the relationship between politics, policy, and economics - particularly with regard to the interests of business. The paper argues that the backlash against the ADA is a product of capitalist opposition. This opposition...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ADA Accommodation Requests Should Not Violate Bona Fide Seniority Systems]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=74372]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent decision by the United States Supreme Court addresses the conflicts that sometimes occur between a seniority system and a disabled employee's request for "reasonable" accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Court held that employers are entitled to a rebuttable presumption that an accommodation is unreasonable if...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Summary of the EEOC's Guidance on the Application of the ADA to Contingent Workers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=75435]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The EEOC issued new enforcement guidance on December 27, 2000, to further explain the application of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ADA to contingent workers. Contingent workers are broadly defined as workers who are placed in positions by staffing firms, which include agencies such as temporary employment agencies...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Studying The Employment Of Persons With Disabilities]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=99525]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There are varied types of people in the world. Some are blessed with ‘extra something' that provides them an opportunity to take on the world. Still, there are some who possess the talent, but fail to give a proper shape due to lack of means and bad fate. The people...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ADA and Small Business]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=74532]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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.  ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ADA Lawsuit Possibly Squelched Based on Low Employee Numbers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=49264]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Communicating the Americans With Disabilities Act - Transcending Compliance: 1996 Follow-Up Report on Sears, Roebuck and Co.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=167994]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ADA continues to shape employment, governmental services, telecommunications, public accommodations, and perhaps most important, public attitudes. The ADA is the most comprehensive federal law to address discrimination against an estimated 50 million Americans. Its implementation remains the subject of intense public policy debate....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stress-Free Workplace Not A Reasonable Accommodation Under The Ada]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=48106]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The case study refers that it is not necessary for an employer to provide a stress-free working environment as a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"). Another problem that arises for the HR Professionals are the rising cases of romance at the work place. While the merry...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/americans+with+disabilities+act.html"><![CDATA[Americans With Disabilities Act]]></category>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/americans+with+disabilities+act+%2528ada%2529.html"><![CDATA[Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)]]></category>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/human+resources.html"><![CDATA[Human Resources]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[The ADA and Pre-employment Medical Inquiries: A Prescription for Compliance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=48289]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/americans+with+disabilities+act.html"><![CDATA[Americans With Disabilities Act]]></category>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/compliance.html"><![CDATA[Compliance]]></category>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/americans+with+disabilities+act+%2528ada%2529.html"><![CDATA[Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)]]></category>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/human+resources.html"><![CDATA[Human Resources]]></category>
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