Complying With The Americans With Disabilities Act

By Author: NetZealous DBA as TrainHR
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Complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and ADAAA (Americans With Disabilities Act Amendment Act) is mandatory for many organizations. Doing so requires them to implement many additional steps, lack of none of which is excusable. As with any other law, obedience to this law also goes by the dictum, “ignorantia legis neminem excusat”, or “Ignorantia juris non excusat”, i.e., ignorance of the law is no excuse.

In fulfilling these additional steps, organizations should have a clear understanding of vital terms such as “Essential Job Function”, “Undue Hardship”, “Reasonable Accommodation”, and “Interactive Process”. There are a couple of reasons for this:

The clause of reasonable accommodation required under ADA is the highest among all types of discrimination charges
The good faith effort to have an interactive process to determine if an individual with a disability is qualified for the job or whether an accommodation is reasonable is unique to the ADAAA
It is to help sort out these nuances that TrainHR, a leading provider of professional training for all the areas of human resources, will be organizing a webinar on February 26.

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