Reasonable accommodation
Subtitle: profitable compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act
By: Jay W. Spechler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781351419598; 9780203741207; 9781351419604; 9781351419581
Subjects: People with disabilities; Case studies; Employment; Vocational rehabilitation; Rehabilitation; Medical rehabilitation; Disabled; Supported Employment; Personnes handicapées; Études de cas; Travail; Réadaptation professionnelle; Réadaptation; Pardons; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Human Resources & Personnel Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Quality Control; Werkomgeving; Gehandicapten; United States; Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (United States)
Description: Reasonable accommodation is defined as any change in the work environment or in the way business is usually conducted that results in equal employment opportunity for an individual with a disability. With the Americans with Disabilities Act in full swing and more than 35,000 court cases on record, there is much to be done to get most companies into compliance.Reasonable Accommodation: Profitable Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act was designed to provide those responsible for diversity and implementing the ADA with specific benchmark examples of how companies have provided accommodations that have had a positive impact on profitability, quality, employee and customer relations.This masterfully written book covers many important topics dealing directly with the ADA. It also provides numerous technologies available that can greatly increase productivity and quality of performance for disabled employees, as well as a "who's who" of case studies including: AT&T, Boeing, Federal Express, Ford Motor Co., Bank of America, Digital Equipment, General Electric Co., IBM, Motorola, WAUSAU Insurance Co., Sears Roebuck, Philip Morris, and many more.
Table of contents: title: The role of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act; title: A ten-step process for implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act criteria; title: AT & T; title: BankAmerica Corporation; title: The Boeing Company and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union; title: Citicorp Diners Club; title: Digital Equipment Corporation; title: Eaton Corporation, Hydraulics Division; title: Federal Express; title: Florida Power & Light Company; title: General Electric Corporation; title: Honeywell; title: International Business Machines Corporation (IBM); title: John Alden Financial Corporation; title: John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company; title: Marriott International, Inc.; title: Motorola, SPS; title: Philip Morris Companies, Inc.; title: The Prudential Asset Management Company; title: Reynolds Metals Company; title: Sears, Roebuck and Company; title: Texas Instruments; title: Union Pacific Technologies; title: United Services Automobile Association (USAA); title: United Technologies Corporation, USBI Company; title: UNUM Life Insurance Company of America; title: Wausau Insurance Companies; title: Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.; title: Baylor Biomedical Services; title: Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services, state of Florida; title: International Center for the Disabled; title: Marriott Foundation for People with Disabilities; title: MEED Program; title: Physical Ergonomics Rehabilitation Center of Dallas; title: Physio-Control Corporation; title: Professional Courtesy Corporation and Medical Software Development Corporation; title: Managing AIDS in the workplace : an overview for managers; title: Access technologies.