This should help out business big time. Now if one does not have a High School diploma one could claim they are disabled. They may have a learning disability. In the article, the writer opines that perhaps this might have the unintended consequence of kids not finishing High School. Hint: They are not finishing now, just telling you. So now the world is just one big disabled population. This reminded me of an earlier story last March. New ADA regulations announced by the EEOC By the way, this came from one of 15 Recess appointments he made just in March last year.
President Obama used his recess appointment power to appoint Feldblum and two others to the commission on March 27, 2010.Geidner, Chris, “Recess Appointment for Feldblum,” Metro Weekly, March 27, 2010.(1)
The final regs implementing the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) are now available on the Federal Register website. ”Like the law they implement, the regulations are designed to simplify the determination of who has a “disability” and make it easier for people to establish that they are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA),” the EEOC’s website states.
But I digressed:
Employers are facing more uncertainty in the wake of a letter from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission warning them that requiring a high school diploma from a job applicant might violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The “informal discussion letter” from the EEOC said an employer’s requirement of a high school diploma, long a standard criterion for screening potential employees, must be “job-related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity.” The letter was posted on the commission’s website on Dec. 2.
Employers could run afoul of the ADA if their requirement of a high school diploma “‘screens out’ an individual who is unable to graduate because of a learning disability that meets the ADA’s definition of ‘disability,’” the EEOC explained. More at Washington Times
