Americans with Disabilities Act

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This paper looks at the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) that targets discrimination against mentally or physically impaired individuals. The paper discusses the benefits to the disabled worker but notes the disadvantages posed to employers. The paper discusses how affirmative action in the context of the ADA can possibly work if the present ambiguous boundaries are defined.

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"The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) is a broad act passed by Congress on January 23, 1990 in response to the pervasiveness of outright discrimination against mentally or physically impaired individuals. Although discrimination with regard to age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, color or race has been observed among individuals and who have been wronged merely by being in one of these categories is prosecutable under current law, it was found that people with disabilities possessed no such legal protection."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Befort, S.F. (2000). Reassignment under the Americans with Disabilities Act: Reasonable accommodation, affirmative action, or both? Washington and Lee Law Review. Retrieved August 8, 2006, from http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3655/is_200010/ai_n8920315/print
• Picker, L. (1998). Consequences of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Retrieved August 8, 2006, from http://www.nber.org/digest/dec98/w6670.html
• U.S. Congress. (1990) Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Retrieved August 8, 2006, from http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/pubs/ada.txt
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (2004 Sept. 2). Discriminatory Practices. Retrieved August 8, 2006, from http://www.eeoc.gov/abouteeo/overview_practices.html
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (2006a). Disability Discrimination. Retrieved August 8, 2006, from http://www.eeoc.gov/types/ada.html

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