The Amendments gave authority to both DOJ and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to issue regulations to implement the ADAAA. The EEOC has already completed its regulatory process (in which DREDF participated). The EEOC issued its final ADAAA regulations on March 25, 2011. Those regulations included strong, bipartisan provisions that are generally faithful to the ADAAA’s mandate for restoring broad definitional coverage.
DOJ issued its proposed ADAAA regulations on January 30, 2014. The proposal signals DOJ’s intention to generally track with the strong EEOC regulations.
There is a Monday, March 31, 2014, deadline to submit comments on the proposed DOJ ADAAA regulations. Interested members of the disability community are invited to cross-reference DREDF’s comments when submitting their own comments.