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<b><i>BREAKING NEWS:</i></b> Business Community OK with New ADAA Implementation

By Marcia Coyle
April 07, 2011

The business and disability rights communities are uniting behind long-awaited, final regulations implementing the 2008 Americans With Disabilities Amendments Act. The regulations become effective on May 24, 2011.

Their reaction to the regulations, published on March 25 in the Federal Register by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, is a dramatic change from strong criticism, particularly from businesses, of a first attempt in 2009.

'What happened was there is a new commission now,' said management attorney Lawrence Lorber, a partner at Proskauer Rose. 'They pulled back and wrote regulations very consistent with the statute.'

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