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  2. Sutton v. United Air Lines, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Sutton v. United Air Lines, Inc., 527 U.S. 471 (1999), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 22, 1999. The Court decided that mitigating measures should be taken into account when determining whether one's impairment constitutes a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).

  3. ADA Amendments Act of 2008 - Wikipedia

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    The ADAAA retains the ADA's definition of disability as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more life activities; a record of such impairment; or being regarded as having such impairment. However, it clarifies and expands the definition's meaning and application in the following ways: [29]

  4. Social risk management - Wikipedia

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    In order to improve social protection, the government rethought its social protection policy in the framework of SRM and the following prevention, mitigation and coping strategies were proposed: Conducting information and education campaigns focused on key preventive measures, especially for health and environment.

  5. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - Wikipedia

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    Other mental or physical health conditions also may be disabilities, depending on what the individual's symptoms would be in the absence of "mitigating measures" such as medication, therapy, assistive devices, or other means of restoring function, during an "active episode" of the condition (if the condition is episodic). [8]

  6. Social protection - Wikipedia

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    Social insurance mitigates risks associated with unemployment, ill-health, disability, work-related injury, and old age, such as health insurance or unemployment insurance. Social assistance is when resources, either cash or in-kind, are transferred to vulnerable individuals or households with no other means of adequate support, including ...

  7. Reasonable accommodation - Wikipedia

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    Employers and managers are often concerned about the potential cost associated with providing accommodations to employees with disabilities. [2] However, many accommodations, such as moving an employee to a different desk or changing the work schedule, do not have any direct cash costs (56% in a survey of employers conducted by JAN [3]), and most others have only one-time costs (e.g., to buy a ...

  8. Accessibility - Wikipedia

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    The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) requires ‘appropriate measures’ to ensure people with disabilities are able to ‘access, on an equal basis with others','the physical environment’, ‘transportation’ and ‘other facilities and services open or provided to the public’’. This requirement also ...

  9. Occupational safety and health - Wikipedia

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    The main focus in occupational health is on three different objectives: (i) the maintenance and promotion of workers' health and working capacity; (ii) the improvement of working environment and work to become conducive to safety and health and (iii) development of work organizations and working cultures in a direction which supports health and ...