EEOC Rules Cover HIV Infection as a Disability...

[OneTampa]

Excerpt:

"The regulations include examples of impairments that should easily be concluded to be disabilities, such as HIV infection, diabetes, epilepsy, and bipolar disorder."

Information here:

http://www1.eeoc.gov//eeoc/newsroom/release/3-24-11.cfm?renderforprint=1

[SunnyFlorida]

That's good news, but I want to add on something from personal experience. Being born deaf and having gone through employment discrimination because of it, I've dealt with EEOC and the ADA and all that. If the company you work for has less than fifteen employees, they are not required by law to follow the ADA laws, nor conform with the EEOC rules. This is why I cannot bring my former employer to court. It's a nasty loophole.

[J.R.E.]

Thanks for that !!

Ray

[denb45]

That's good news, but I want to add on something from personal experience. Being born deaf and having gone through employment discrimination because of it, I've dealt with EEOC and the ADA and all that. If the company you work for has less than fifteen employees, they are not required by law to follow the ADA laws, nor conform with the EEOC rules. This is why I cannot bring my former employer to court. It's a nasty loophole.

I took my former employer to court due to having AIDS 12 yrs. ago (they tired to fire me) but, they really couldn't, so I settled outta court, and kept my pension, and went on SSDI instead    FUCK EM' I still got what I wanted 

[JR Gabbard]

Good news indeed!

This was in response to the ADA Amendments Act of 2008.  What changed was the standard for calling an impairment a "disability" to invoke the protection of the Act.

ADA said an impairment was a disability if it "substantially limits" one or more major life activities.  The ADAA says an impairment need not prevent or severely or significantly restrict performance of a major life activity to be considered a disability.

The ADAA also says that disabilities that can be improved with treatment are still disabilities, and that you are still protected by the law if your impairment is in a period of remission.

You can find a good fact sheet here.

Thanks Tampa!