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Americans With Disabilities Act Case Study Case Study
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Americans With Disabilities Act Case Study
(1) If such a situation occurred in your workplace and you were the Director of Human Resources would you deem Karina disabled under the ADA? If so, what reasonable accommodations would you offer to her?
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. An individual with a disability is reported as a person who:
(1) Has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities;
(2) Has a record of such an impairment; or (3) Is regarded as having such an impairment. ( )
An employee or applicant who is qualified with a disability is an individual who"…with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the job in question." ( ) Reasonable accommodations are reported to include but not be limited to the following:
(1) Making existing facilities used by employees readily accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities.
(2) Job restructuring, modifying work schedules, reassignment to a vacant position;
(3) Acquiring or modifying equipment or devices, adjusting or modifying examinations, training materials, or policies, and providing qualified readers or interpreters.
Therefore, it is the opinion of this writer that the employee, Karina, has a disabling condition that results in her inability to perform her work requirements as they are stated. However, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) states that reasonable accommodations must be made for an employee so as to enable them to perform their work duties. The most reasonable accommodations for Karina would…
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Facts About the Americans with Disabilities Act (nd) The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Retrieved from: http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-ada.html
Disability Resrouces: Americans with Disabilities Act (nd) Disability Reosurces. U.S. Department of Labor. Retrieved from: http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/disability/ada.htm
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