The Americans With Disabilities Act and Reasonable Accommodation: The View From Persons With HIV/AIDS |
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| Authors: | James D. Slack |
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| Affiliation: | professor and chair of the Department of Government and Public Service at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also a senior scientist in the Medical School's Center for AIDS Research and senior scholar in School of Public Health's Lister Hill Center for Health Policy. Professor Slack's research focuses on human resource management, antidiscrimination policy, and health policy as applied to the public workplace. His most recent book is HIV/AIDS and the Workplace: Local Government Preparedness in the 1990s;(University of Alabama Press, 1998). |
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| Abstract: | This study examines the application of reasonable accommodation to situations involving employees with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Two questions are posed. What types of accommodations are needed? How readily available is the reasonable accommodation component of the Americans With Disabilities Act? These questions are addressed through qualitative analysis. Three lessons are drawn from the findings. |
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