Aids And The Law Of Workplace Discrimination

As medical treatment improves, more HIV-positive persons, even those with full-blown AIDS, are able to continue living and working for longer periods of times. This raises serious problems about workplace discrimination against these patients. In this analysis, Jeffrey Mello examines how the laws intended to protect HIV-positive employees from discrimination have worked or have failed to provide protection. He analyzes the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), looks at key court cases in which the ADA has been wielded to defend employment rights, and offers important policy recommendations for dealing with the act's limitations.