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EEOC Update: ADA Employment Cases

Presented by Christopher J. Kuczynski, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, on November 6, 2009

About the Web cast/Teleconference

Highlights of cases surrounding the ADA including reasonable accommodation, nondiscrimination requirements, essential job functions, the interactive process, and other related issues are presented.

About the Presenter

Chris Kuczynski became Assistant Legal Counsel and Director of the ADA Policy Division in February 1997. He oversees the development of agency regulations, enforcement guidance, and technical assistance documents interpreting Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Currently, he is overseeing development of regulations to implement the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 and Title II of the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2008 (GINA). GINA prohibits employers from using genetic information about applicants and employees in making employment decisions and limits the right of employers to acquire and disclose such information. Chris has made hundreds of presentations on the ADA to diverse audiences, including human resources and EEO professionals, supervisors and managers in the public and private sectors, and plaintiff and defense counsel.

From January to October 2003, Chris was a Special Assistant to former EEOC Chair Cari Dominguez, and from October 2003 through April 2004, he was Associate Director of the White House Domestic Policy counsel. Chris was a trial attorney in the Disability Rights Section of the U.S. Department of Justice from July 1993 until February 1997, and was a litigation associate for three years with a major Philadelphia law firm. He has a B.A. in English from Villanova University (from which he received the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2007 Alumni Medallion for his work in the field of civil rights), a J.D. from Temple Law School, and an LL.M. from Yale Law School.

Presentation Transcript and Resources:

• Summaries of Cases to Be Discussed
• Transcript of the Presentation (MS Word doc)

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Presented by the DBTAC Southwest ADA Center, a program of ILRU (Independent Living Research Utilization), at TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston, Texas. The DBTAC is funded by a grant (H133A060091) from the Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).

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