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EEOC Takes Action Against Associational Discrimination
employees or applicants for employment. However, the ADA does not require an employer to assist — or in other words, accommodate — a person without a disability due to that person’s association with someone with a disability.
Still, an employer cannot discriminate against an employee or applicant because of that person’s asso- ciation with someone with a disability. This is what is called ‘associational discrimination,’ which, in the below case, was due to another’s disability under the ADA.
On Sept. 19, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), announced that
it had sued a private school for associational dis- crimination under the ADA. According to the EEOC’s announcement, the school allegedly discriminated against one of its teachers by refusing to renew her contract over her daughter’s disability.
This was “precisely the kind of conduct the ADA’s
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nder the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employers are required to provide reasonable accommodations to quali-