Americans with Disabilities Act was established to restrain illegal discrimination in employment against individuals qualified to be disabled. The purpose of the law was to generally end discrimination in the place of work and to deliver equal employment chances for individuals living with disabilities or have had histories of disabilities. The act defends employees that experience physical or mental deficiency that greatly limits a key life activity. In addition to that, it protects the rights of employees with a history of disability and those that employers regard as being disabled even when in the real sense they are not. The main goal of this law is to simply eradicate discrimination against people with disabilities.
Even with the existence of this law, there are still employers who have gone against the odds to discriminate against their disabled employees by failing to provide them with flexible programs and failing to assess safety hazards for those disabled individuals who need to use wheelchairs to move around. Other employers have failed to cater for medical treatment of their employees and others do not put into consideration that their impaired employees need part time work schedules as well as frequent breaks. There have been several, if not many, cases that have indicated the failure of employers to treat their disabled employees as required by the law.
Several dependent companies were sued for discriminating against a disabled New Yorker living with AIDS. The lawsuit alleged that when the man living with AIDS explained to each of the companies that he was disabled and was receiving a HIV/AIDS Services Administration rent subsidy, the companies refused to work with him and constrained his access to listings. Follow up investigation by skilled testers from Fair Housing Justice Center confirmed the perpetrators’ discriminatory acts. This case revealed