Are the ADA guidelines on mental disabilities fair to business?
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Americans with Disabilities Act guidelines for mentally ill employees are controversial because advocates believe they aid business while opponents find them burdensome. Supporters feel the guidelines help clarify what is a covered mental illness, require only reasonable accommodations and provide an undue hardship exemption. Opponents contend that mental illness is too poorly understood to expect business owners to recognize mental illness and the allowance of verbal notification as evidence makes lawsuit abuse probable.
Publication Name: CQ Researcher
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 1997
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Mandatory sentencing: do tough sentencing laws reduce crime?
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Mandatory sentencing has become a popular political tool for adressing crime, but critics claim that the approach in unfair and ineffective. Three-strikes laws and the abolition of parole have been adopted in many states, and supporters claim that such laws will keep violent offenders locked up and eventually serve as a deterrent. Critics, however, point out that the costs are astronomical, that petty crime is too severely punished and that crime rates have not decreased in states with such mandatory sentencing guidelines.
Publication Name: CQ Researcher
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 1995
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Is the federal law making it a crime to block abortion clinics fair to anti-abortion protestors?
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Violence by anti-abortion protestors at abortion clinics has led to the passage of a federal law making it a crime to block access to such clinics. Supporters of the law point out that it denies no one the right to free speech, but protects employees of clinics and those who seek their services. Pro-lifers say that they are morally obligated to stand outside of clinics and offer counseling to prospective mothers. They also claim that abortion is the real crime, murder, and that it is used to exploit women.
Publication Name: CQ Researcher
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 1995
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