Major Issues in the Federal Law of Employment Discrimination, Fourth Edition

摘要

The last edition of this monograph analyzed two major pieces of legislation that profoundly changed the federal law of employment discrimination: the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Both of these statutes responded to perceived deficiencies in existing law: the first, to the limited coverage of laws protecting the disabled, and the second, to accumulated judicial decisions that had generally restricted the scope and enforcement of previously enacted laws. The current edition recounts no such landmark changes in the law. The developments of the last decade, mainly judicial decisions, have attempted to assimilate these earlier statutory changes into employment discrimination law and to take account of changes in other, related fields of law. No one of these judicial decisions, by itself, has signaled a decisive shift in employment discrimination law, but cumulatively they have confirmed several trends first evident in the legislation of the early 1990s.