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The ADA Amendments Act and Reasonable Accommodation Changes

presented by Peggy R. Mastroianni, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and Brian East, Disability Rights Texas

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About the Training

Part of the ADA Virtual Roundtable series, the presenters will discuss recent changes to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the concept of reasonable accommodations.

Session topics will include:

• Changes to definition of Disability
• Emerging issues due to recent changes
• How these changes apply to Sections 501 (federal employment), 503 (federal contractors), and 504 (recipients of federal financial assistance and services and programs of federal agencies) of the Rehabilitation Act
• Mitigating Measures
• New compliance guidance
• Reasonable Accommodations process

Presentation Handouts

• Presentation slides (Powerpoint)
• Presentation slides (text)
• Transcript

About the Presenter

Peggy R. Mastroianni currently serves as the Associate Legal Counsel in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). She is responsible for developing Commission guidance under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Equal Pay Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and for providing legal advice for the Commission on a wide range of substantive issues and administrative matters. Mastroianni directed the development of the Commission’s Notices of Proposed Rulemaking on the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 and Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, as well as policy documents addressing Religious Discrimination, Unlawful Disparate Treatment of Persons with Caregiving Responsibilities, Race and Color Discrimination, and National Origin Discrimination. Under Mastroianni’s direction, OLC also developed ADA guidance on Reasonable Accommodation, Disability Related Inquiries and Medical Examinations, Workers’ Compensation, and Psychiatric Conditions. Prior to her work in OLC, Mastroianni served as a trial attorney and appellate attorney in the EEOC’s Office of General Counsel. In 2009, Mastroianni received the American Bar Association Section on Labor and Employment Law’s “Federal Labor and Employment Attorney of the Year Award.” In 2008, she was selected for the “Mary C. Lawton Outstanding Government Service Award” by the ABA’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.

Brian East is a senior attorney in the Legal Services Unit of Advocacy, Inc., the Texas "protection and advocacy system" for persons with disabilities. He provides technical assistance to advocates, and representation to persons with disabilities, in a variety of areas, and is a frequent presenter on ADA issues. He is the co-author and editor of the chapter on "Workers with Disabilities" in the Employee & Union Member Guide to Labor Law (Thomson/West 2007). Brian is a member of the American Diabetes Association’s Legal Advocacy Subcommittee, and has also served on the Legal Committee of the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN). He is a Board member of both the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and the Texas Employment Lawyers Association (TELA), and co-chairs NELA’s Disability Rights Committee. Brian is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. He began in private practice in Austin in 1982, and since 1989 has concentrated his practice in employment and civil rights law.

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This webinar is supported through the DBTAC Southwest ADA Center, a program of ILRU.  The Southwest ADA Center (www.SouthwestADA.org) is one of ten Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs) funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to provide training, technical assistance and materials dissemination on the Americans with Disabilities Act and other disability-related laws. NIDRR is part of the U.S. Department of Education.  

Call 1-800-949-4232 v/tty to reach the ADA Center that serves your area. The opinions and views expressed are those of the presenters and no endorsement by the funding agency should be inferred.

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