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TITLE 34 LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

6A. Equal Employment, Persons with Disabilities, 34-6A-1 through 34-6A-6.

ARTICLE 2 MEMBERSHIP IN LABOR ORGANIZATIONS

34-6A-1. Short title.

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Georgia Equal Employment for Persons With Disabilities Code."

(Code 1933, § 66-501, enacted by Ga. L. 1981, p. 1803, § 2; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1302, § 4.)

Law reviews.

- For survey of 1987 Eleventh Circuit cases on constitutional law - civil, see 39 Mercer L. Rev. 1169 (1988).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Humphreys v. Riverside Mfg. Co., 169 Ga. App. 18, 311 S.E.2d 223 (1983); Johnson v. Kut Kwick Corp., 620 F. Supp. 748 (S.D. Ga. 1984); Veal v. Memorial Hosp., 894 F. Supp. 448 (M.D. Ga. 1995).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Visual impairment as handicap or disability under state employment discrimination law, 77 A.L.R.5th 595.

Who is "qualified individual" under Americans with Disabilities Act provisions defining and extending protection against employment discrimination to qualified individual with disability (42 U.S.C.A. §§ 12111(8), 12112(a)), 146 A.L.R. Fed. 1

What constitutes federal financial assistance for purposes of § 504 of Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C.A. § 794), which prohibits any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance from discriminating on basis of disability, 147 A.L.R. Fed. 205.

Action under Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C.A. § 12101 et seq.) to remedy alleged harassment or hostile work environment, 162 A.L.R. Fed. 603.

What constitutes employment discrimination by public entity in violation of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C.A. § 12132, 164 A.L.R. Fed. 433.