ABSTRACT
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the most significant statute enacted by the president and Congress since the Great Society. As this book shows, the Act’s reasonable accommodations provisions are groundbreaking. They are not affirmative action provisions that compensate a group of individuals for past injustices; they are not antidiscrimination provisions that prevent employers from exercising any bias against a people based on their group identity; nor are they a new form of collective bargaining. The reasonable accommodations provisions give affirmative or substantive rights to no identifiable group, but rather to individuals who have physical and mental needs that must be satisfied for these individuals to work.
