Americans with Disabilities Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2273 and S. 933, Bills to Establish a Clear and Comprehensive Prohibition of Discrimination on the Basis of Disability, September 28, 1989U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 174 páginas |
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Página 21 - ... who use wheelchairs, as soon as practicable but in no event later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, except that the time limit may be...
Página 12 - employer" means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has fifteen or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and any agent of such a person, but such term does not include...
Página 11 - employee" means an individual employed by an employer, except that the term "employee" shall not include any person elected to public office in any State or political subdivision of any State by the qualified voters thereof, or any person chosen by such officer to be on such officer's personal staff, or an appointee on the...
Página 51 - Except as provided in paragraph (3), a covered entity shall not conduct a medical examination or make inquiries of a job applicant as to whether such applicant is an individual with a disability or as to the nature or severity of such disability. (B) ACCEPTABLE INQUIRY. A covered entity may make preemployment inquiries into the ability of an applicant to perform job-related functions.
Página 74 - ... a failure to make reasonable modifications in policies, practices, or procedures, when such modifications are necessary to afford such goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations to individuals with disabilities, unless the entity can demonstrate that making such modifications would fundamentally alter the nature...
Página 169 - ... appropriation request. Surely Congress will want to take the time for thoughtful planning effort, including the detailed environmental impact studies and consideration of alternatives which are required for Federal projects elsewhere in the Nation, before approval of new construction in its own neighborhood. We request that this letter be included in the record of your hearing of April 15, and we hope that action on this proposal for the use of the land surrounding our Nation's Capitol will be...
Página 52 - It may be a defense to a charge of discrimination under this Act that an alleged application of qualification standards, tests, or selection criteria that screen out or tend to screen out or otherwise deny a job or benefit to an individual with a disability has been shown to be job-related and consistent with business necessity, and such performance cannot be accomplished by reasonable accommodation, as required under this title. (b) Qualification Standards. The term "qualification standards...
Página 73 - ... using qualification standards, employment tests or other selection criteria that screen out or tend to screen out an individual with a disability...
Página 74 - ... fundamentally alter the nature of such goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations; (iii) a failure to take such steps as may be necessary to ensure that no individual with a disability is excluded, denied services, segregated or otherwise treated differently than other individuals because of the absence of auxiliary aids and services...
Página 73 - It shall be discriminatory to exclude or otherwise deny equal goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, accommodations, or other opportunities to an individual or entity because of the known disability of an individual with whom the individual or entity is known to have a relationship or association.