The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law on 26 July 1990. It prohibits employers from discriminating against employees or applicants with disabilities who can perform the essential functions of a job with reasonable accommodation. Under ADA, people with disabilities are those:
who have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, or
who have a record of such an impairment, or
who are regarded as having such an impairment.
The ADA Report shows how your enterprise is responding to the requests of employees with disabilities for reasonable accommodations to permit them to carry out the essential functions of their jobs, without undue hardship to you as their employer.
The ADA report covers those employees in each of your establishments who work on a non-temporary, full or part time basis, have a non-terminated assignment status as of the report period end date, and have taken one or more of the following actions:
requested registration as a disabled person.
provided information about a type of disability they have.
requested accommodation for a disability.
To determine which of your employment categories cover non-temporary full time or part time workers, and which assignment statuses count as non-terminated, you use the Reporting Categories and Reporting Statuses registered for your Business Group.