Different paths to justice: the ADA, employment, and administrative enforcement by the EEOC and FEPAs
✍ Scribed by Kathryn Moss; Michael Ullman; Matthew C. Johnsen; Barbara E. Starrett; Scott Burris
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 161 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0735-3936
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Under Title I of the ADA, individuals who believe they have been subjected to disability-based employment discrimination may ®le an administrative charge. This article looks at who ®les charges, over what issues, and with what outcomes in both Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ®eld oces, and state and local fair employment practice agencies (FEPAs). The data for the article are computerized records of all ADA charges ®led through March 31, 1998. The data indicate that individuals who rely on a FEPA to investigate their charge have a greater likelihood of obtaining a bene®cial outcome than individuals who rely on the EEOC, but proportionately more individuals receiving a bene®cial outcome are likely to receive monetary bene®ts from the EEOC than from a FEPA. Further, those who receive bene®cial outcomes will probably receive greater monetary bene®ts from charges investigated by the EEOC than from those investigated by a FEPA.