HIV/AIDS and the public workplace
Subtitle: local government preparedness in the 1990s
By: James D. Slack ; with a foreword by Chester A. Newland.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- United States.; Municipal officials and employees -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
Description: "In this first empirical study of AIDS-related practices and attitudes in the workplace, James D. Slack analyzes in detail issues of reasonable accommodation and undue hardship as they apply to HIV/AIDS and the workplace and outlines the workplace costs of managing the epidemic."--BOOK JACKET. "The book concludes with specific recommendations about how management must empower itself to accept the primary responsibility for finding solutions to the workplace ramifications of HIV/AIDS. It also suggests concrete ways in which the federal government can assist management to empower itself."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-160) and index.