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From: The ADA and government jobs
Date: 15 Oct 2012
Time: 10:02:33 -0500
Remote Name: 149.101.1.120
Shira--The ADA does not apply to the federal government. The federal government is covered by a much older law called the National Rehabilitation Act. The ADA was, however, modeled after that law. The ADA does apply to State and Municipal governments. But as far as the ADA helping us get jobs, that is a tricky one. The ADA can make it more difficult for a disabled person to get hired precisely because the ADA makes it so hard to fire them should they prove to be bad employees. It is relatively easy to explain why someone was not hired, i.e., many other applicants. Firing someone is much more difficult because, if the ADA really does cover the indidual, he or she can make a prima facie case that they were fired because their disability, even if that was not the case, and then the entity must pay its lawyers to get them out of this mess.