Useful Alphabet Soup: EEOC's FAQ's on ADA
The Connecticut Employment Law Blog often has informative and interesting posts and one of its most recent by Daniel Schwartz reports that the EEOC has issued performance/conduct FAQ’s to help employers and employees understand the ADA (“EEOC Issues FAQs for Employees and Employers on Performance/Conduct Issues Under the ADA”). CELB also provides a link to the guidelines which is reproduced here.
The CELB post also provides some informative commentary.
The FAQs provide an important resource. The premise of our blog is that practices that avoid litigation, especially in employment, also have a positive impact on the effectiveness of the organization as a workplace and as a going concern. In addition to the specific guidelines and hypotheticals, employers and employees should note the overall pattern: well understood standards that are applied even-handedly help establish a semi-safe harbor from litigation and can’t hurt performance.
