Article: Staffing for persons with disabilities: what is "fair" and "job related"?

Article: Employers' Liability Expands Under The ADA Amendments Act.
Mondaq Business Briefing;  October 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Court decisions interpreted the ADA as setting a high standard in ... intended to clarify that the ADA applies to individuals suffering ... modifications An entity covered by the ADA also may not use qualification ... vision unless the entity can show job-relatedness or business necessity. ...

Article: Use of personality test for promotion violates ADA.(Law ...
Hawaii Business;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... held that this violated the ADA. The court explained that the ADA prohibits employers from using ... 2) medical tests that lack job relatedness and business necessity, or ... medical test governed by the ADA, because it was designed to ...

Article: HIV: how high the risk? (human immunodeficiency virus)(employing ...
HRMagazine;  February 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... individual may be protected by the ADA if an employer perceives the ... or she is not. Finally, the ADA provides that an employer cannot ... with all disabilities, the ADA's protections with regard ... employer can respond to the job relatedness of the disability (as opposed ...

Article: Doctors' notes, exempt pay, overtime.(HR Solutions)(Column)
HRMagazine;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... it rises to the level of an ADA disability. This information ... an inquiry could violate the ADA if the employer is unable to demonstrate job relatedness and that such a practice is ... not a disability under the ADA, privacy and discrimination ...

Article: Is your organization lawsuit-proof?
Nonprofit World;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... took effect in 1992. Under ADA, discrimination is defined ... manual tasks. Based on the ADA, the high court in Randon Bragdon ... should be able to demonstrate job relatedness of any test administered. The ... job functions as stated in the ADA requirement.2 It's essential ...

Article: New lakefront stadium for Bears is a great idea
Chicago Sun-Times;  December 12, 1986 ;     700+ words ... ... records without regard to the specific position to be filled and job-relatedness of the crime, may be found to discriminate against racial ... house before you try to straighten out the rest of the world. Ada Halleck, Uptown Creeping closer The American Left will keep ...

Transcript: GENETIC NON-DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKFORCE:LAWRENCE Z. LORBER
Congressional Testimony;  July 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... handicaps. Those regulations established the principle of job relatedness under the Rehabilitation Act. They also established the principle ... statutes, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), with respect to the Congress and congressional instrumentalities ...