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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), signed by President George Bush in 1990, protects people with disabilities from discrimination in employment, government programs and services, public accommodations, transportation, and telecommunications. The ADA is a landmark civil rights law, with rules on everything from ramps and other building accessibility issues to emergency telephone services, paratransit, workplace accommodations, and more. It seeks to ensure that people with disabilities will have access to the services and buildings -- as well as all of the rights and privileges -- that are vital to public life.
Spotlight on Workplace Disability Discrimination
Learn how the ADA protects applicants and employees from disability discrimination on the job.
Learn the basics about the ADA.
Most temporary and short-term ailments don't qualify as disabilities, unless disabling complications arise.
Learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, generally qualify as disabilities under the ADA, if they affect a major life activity.
Because hearing is a major life activity, employees and applicants who are deaf or having serious hearing impairments are protected by the ADA.
What's a disability, who is qualified for a job, and what's a reasonable accommodation? Learn the answers here.
Employers, take note of these benefits to providing disability training in the workplace.
Only employees and applicants who can perform a job's essential functions are protected from discrimination.
You asked, and we answered: If you want to file a discrimination complaint, go to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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