{"id":272,"date":"2021-12-23T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=272"},"modified":"2022-06-03T21:30:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T07:30:30","slug":"eeoc-covid-19-technical-assistance-updated-with-ada-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/eeoc-covid-19-technical-assistance-updated-with-ada-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"EEOC COVID-19 Technical Assistance Updated With ADA Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has updated its COVID-19&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/wysk\/what-you-should-know-about-covid-19-and-ada-rehabilitation-act-and-other-eeo-laws?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=#N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Technical Assistance<\/a>&nbsp;(as of December 14, 2021) with additional guidance to clarify under what circumstances COVID-19 may be considered a disability under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Key information includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>An employee\u2019s COVID-19 may sometimes cause impairments that are themselves disabilities under the ADA, regardless of whether the initial case of COVID-19 constituted an actual disability<\/li><li>An employee\u2019s COVID-19 which results in mild symptoms that resolve in a few weeks, with no other consequences, will not have an ADA disability that could make someone eligible to receive a reasonable accommodation.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See also the DOJ\/HHS&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ada.gov\/long_covid_joint_guidance.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guidance on \u2018Long COVID\u2019 as a Disability Under the ADA, Section 504, and Section 1557<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has updated its COVID-19&nbsp;Technical Assistance&nbsp;(as of December 14, 2021) with additional guidance to clarify under what circumstances COVID-19 may be considered a disability under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Key information includes: An employee\u2019s COVID-19 may sometimes cause impairments that are themselves disabilities under the ADA, regardless of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}