{"id":96058,"date":"2021-11-14T17:56:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T21:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=96058"},"modified":"2021-11-14T17:56:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T21:56:54","slug":"what-you-should-know-about-covid-19-and-the-ada-the-rehabilitation-act-and-other-eeo-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=96058","title":{"rendered":"What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Submitted by Harold Saive<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>T<\/b><b>he EEOC recognizes that \u201clong COVID\u201d may be a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act in certain circumstances. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws<\/p>\n<p>Notice: September 9, 2021<br \/>\nThe EEOC recognizes that \u201clong COVID\u201d may be a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act in certain circumstances.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> The EEOC agrees with the analysis of \u201clong COVID\u201d by the Departments of Health and Human Services and Justice in their \u201cGuidance on \u2018Long COVID\u2019 as a Disability Under the ADA, Section 504, and Section 1557.\u201d EEOC technical assistance about COVID-19 and ADA \u201cdisability\u201d in the employment context will be released in the coming weeks.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/wysk\/what-you-should-know-about-covid-19-and-ada-rehabilitation-act-and-other-eeo-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/wysk\/what-you-should-know-about-covid-19-and-ada-rehabilitation-act-and-other-eeo-laws&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637013187068000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0KuBPWxblp8EN4tvavkR23\">https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/wysk\/<wbr \/>what-you-should-know-about-<wbr \/>covid-19-and-ada-<wbr \/>rehabilitation-act-and-other-<wbr \/>eeo-laws<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}