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1 online resource (xvii, 261 pages) |
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The law and public policy |
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Law and public policy.
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| Contents |
The Work Experience of People With Psychiatric Disabilities -- Disability Discrimination Law and Discrimination Against People With Psychiatric Disabilities -- A Basic Primer in Disability Discrimination Law -- Before You File a Lawsuit -- Statutes of Limitation -- Recent and Upcoming Supreme Court Decisions and Their Impact on the ADA -- Other Federal Laws Regulating Employment -- Unions, Collective Bargaining, and the ADA -- The Americans With Disabilities Act and the Definition of Mental Impairments -- The Meaning of Mental Disability Under the ADA -- ADA Case Law and Mental Impairment -- The Substantial Limitations of the Substantial Limitations Requirement of the Americans With Disabilities Act -- Substantial Limitation in Major Life Activities -- "Record of Disability" and "Regarded as Having a Disability" -- Record of Disability -- Regarding an Individual as Having a Disability -- Abusive Work Environments, Stressful Working Conditions, and Discrimination -- Defining Disability to Exclude Workers With Psychiatric Disabilities -- Psychiatric Disability and the Requirement That Employees Be "Qualified Individuals" -- Using the ADA to Attack Objectively Abusive or Unreasonably Stressful Workplace Environments -- What Is Discrimination? -- Adverse Employment Action -- Blanket Exclusions on the Basis of Disability -- Pre-Employment Inquiry or Testing for Mental Disabilities -- Postoffer Psychological Testing -- Requiring Employees to Undergo Psychiatric Examinations |
| Summary |
Although passed into law with high expectations, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has mostly failed in enabling those with mental disabilities to fight discrimination in the workplace. In Hollow Promises, Susan Stefan explores the reasons for this failure and points to how the courts, government, and employers may finally make good on the ADA's seemingly hollow promises of rights. Those with mental disabilities, like most people, want to work to support themselves and find respect and personal fulfillment. But because of engrained prejudices against those with a record of disability, obtaining and holding a job can be an epic task. This book witnesses the difficulties that people with mental disabilities may have in finding and keeping employment and describes how the ADA has affected this problem. Filled with detailed descriptions of employment cases and sharp analysis of the law, this provocative book is essential reading for lawyers, employers, therapists, people with mental disabilities, and all those seeking just employment practice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
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| SUBJECT |
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (United States) fast |
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People with mental disabilities -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- United States
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Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation -- United States
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Employment (Economic theory)
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Discrimination.
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Mentally Disabled Persons -- employment
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Mentally Disabled Persons -- legislation & jurisdiction
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Employment
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Discrimination, Psychological
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employing.
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discrimination.
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Employment (Economic theory)
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Discrimination
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Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation
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People with mental disabilities -- Employment -- Law and legislation
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United States |
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United States
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Electronic book
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