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Titles of the ADA<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Title I: Employment<\/summary>\n


Title I is designed to help people with disabilities access the same employment opportunities and benefits available to people without disabilities. Title I requires employers with 15 or more employees to provide equal employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Employers may hire, fire, and promote the most qualified individual, regardless of his\/her disability. Title I covers all aspects of the hiring process, including posting of available positions, interviewing, job offers, and hiring. It requires all employers to make necessary reasonable accommodations for known disabilities of a qualified applicant or employee such as providing a qualified interpreter for a deaf applicant to participate in a job interview unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the employer. According to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a reasonable accommodation is \u201cany change in the work environment or in the way things are customarily done that enables an individual with a disability to enjoy equal employment opportunities.\u201d Examples of reasonable accommodations include modification of work schedules, altering a workspace, restructuring job duties, and reassignment. Tax credits may be available for employers that comply with the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, covered employers must provide an employee with a disability an accommodation when it is needed so the employee may perform the essential job functions or provide equal access to any benefit associated with the job, i.e., health insurance, employee parking etc. A reasonable accommodation is \u201cany change in the work environment or in the way things are customarily done that enables an individual with a disability to enjoy equal employment opportunities.\u201d Examples of reasonable accommodations include modification of work schedules, altering a workspace, restructuring job duties, and reassignment.

The ADA prohibits employers from asking any disability or medical related questions on an application, or during an interview. It also prohibits the use of employment tests and other selection criteria that screen out or tend to screen out individuals with disabilities unless the tests are shown to be job-related and consistent with business necessity. Employers must also keep results of any medical exams confidential. The law permits employers to inquire about the ability of a job applicant or employee to perform essential job-related functions at any time.

Employment complaints may be filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC can be contacted to file a complaint by calling 800-669-4000 (V) or 800-669-6820 (TTY).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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