Employment Law Update: Recent Changes in Employment Law of Which Employers Need to Be Aware

摘要

There have been several significant changes to employment law in the last year that will impact most employers. The following is a short summary of some of those changes. The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) continues to apply to employers with 15 or more employees, requiring employers to make reasonable accommodations to employees with a disability. A disability is a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, having a record of such an impairment, or being regarded as having such an impairment. In late 2008, the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) was signed into law. The ADAAA is a significant change to the ADA, designed to reverse rulings handed down by the courts that Congress believed had limited the ADA in ways that were not intended when that landmark legislation was passed.