Disabilities in the Workplace : Drug and Alcohol Use and Testing
The federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), the major laws covering individuals with disabilities, do not affect your employer’s right to prohibit alcohol and illegal drug use at the workplace. Employment rules prohibiting such drug or alcohol use are permissible.
Disability Discrimination for Workers and Applicants
What kinds of protections and solutions are offered for people with disabilities? Your rights when applying for a job, interviewing, working on the job, resolving disputes, and taking leaves.
Ensuring equal access for people with disabilities
Employment and housing discrimination.
Know Your Rights - Disability Rights
People with disabilities face widespread discrimination, segregation, and exclusion. But federal disability rights laws can provide protection. (Updated October 2023 to reflect additions regarding online hiring and digital discrimination.)
Labor Unions: Duty of Fair Representation
A union owes a duty of fair representation to all of the workers it represents. This duty requires that the union act fairly, impartially, and without ill will or discrimination when pursuing a worker"s grievance or when negotiating a new contract with the employer.
Undocumented Workers' Employment Rights
With a few exceptions, undocumented workers enjoy all of the legal rights and remedies provided by both Federal and California law.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
ADR Types and Benefits. The Judicial Council of California has created a video series with descriptions of different kinds of dispute resolution and where each might be helpful.
Disabilities in the Workplace: Reasonable Accommodation
Reasonable accommodations are changes made to a job or the workplace to enable an employee or job applicant to successfully perform the position"s basic duties,to protect health, and to obtain the same benefits of employment as other workers.
Disability Discrimination for Workers and Applicants
What kinds of protections and solutions are offered for people with disabilities? Your rights when applying for a job, interviewing, working on the job, resolving disputes, and taking leaves.
Disability Rights California - Publications
Browse through the statewide disability rights advocacy organization's publications, which cover many areas of the law.
Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking & Employment: An Introduction to State and Federal Disability Laws
A fact sheet on workplace protections if you’re facing domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking survivors often have physical or mental health disabilities that are caused or exacerbated by abuse. Under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, survivors with disabilities are entitled to a workplace free of discrimination and harassment and may be eligible for workplace reasonable accommodations for their disabilities, including a reduced work schedule, a leave of absence from work, or a transfer to a different position
Ensuring equal access for people with disabilities
Employment and housing discrimination.
Facts About the Americans with Disabilities Act
A detailed explanation of what the law covers.
Know Your Rights - Disability Rights
People with disabilities face widespread discrimination, segregation, and exclusion. But federal disability rights laws can provide protection. (Updated October 2023 to reflect additions regarding online hiring and digital discrimination.)
Undocumented Workers' Employment Rights
With a few exceptions, undocumented workers enjoy all of the legal rights and remedies provided by both Federal and California law.
Work-Leave, the ADA, and the FMLA
The Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and ADA grant leaves of absence.
Wrongful Termination
The general rule in California is that employees are considered to employed "at will," meaning that they may be fired at any time by their employers, for any reason or for no reason at all. However, there are important exceptions to the "at will" rule.
Undocumented Workers' Employment Rights
With a few exceptions, undocumented workers enjoy all of the legal rights and remedies provided by both Federal and California law.
Disability Rights California - Publications
Browse through the statewide disability rights advocacy organization's publications, which cover many areas of the law.
Disability Employment Policy Frequently Asked Questions
If your question is not addressed, please feel free to contact the Office of Disability Employment Policy at InfoODEP@dol.gov
Labor Enforcement Task Force (LETF)
What are your rights as a worker? What Is the Underground Economy? Report a bad employer.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
ADR Types and Benefits. The Judicial Council of California has created a video series with descriptions of different kinds of dispute resolution and where each might be helpful.
Disabilities in the Workplace : Drug and Alcohol Use and Testing
The federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), the major laws covering individuals with disabilities, do not affect your employer’s right to prohibit alcohol and illegal drug use at the workplace. Employment rules prohibiting such drug or alcohol use are permissible.
Disabilities in the Workplace: Reasonable Accommodation
Reasonable accommodations are changes made to a job or the workplace to enable an employee or job applicant to successfully perform the position"s basic duties,to protect health, and to obtain the same benefits of employment as other workers.
Disability Discrimination for Workers and Applicants
What kinds of protections and solutions are offered for people with disabilities? Your rights when applying for a job, interviewing, working on the job, resolving disputes, and taking leaves.
Disability Employment Policy Frequently Asked Questions
If your question is not addressed, please feel free to contact the Office of Disability Employment Policy at InfoODEP@dol.gov
Disability Rights California - Publications
Browse through the statewide disability rights advocacy organization's publications, which cover many areas of the law.
Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking & Employment: An Introduction to State and Federal Disability Laws
A fact sheet on workplace protections if you’re facing domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking survivors often have physical or mental health disabilities that are caused or exacerbated by abuse. Under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, survivors with disabilities are entitled to a workplace free of discrimination and harassment and may be eligible for workplace reasonable accommodations for their disabilities, including a reduced work schedule, a leave of absence from work, or a transfer to a different position
Ensuring equal access for people with disabilities
Employment and housing discrimination.
Facts About the Americans with Disabilities Act
A detailed explanation of what the law covers.
Know Your Rights - Disability Rights
People with disabilities face widespread discrimination, segregation, and exclusion. But federal disability rights laws can provide protection. (Updated October 2023 to reflect additions regarding online hiring and digital discrimination.)
Labor Enforcement Task Force (LETF)
What are your rights as a worker? What Is the Underground Economy? Report a bad employer.
Labor Unions: Duty of Fair Representation
A union owes a duty of fair representation to all of the workers it represents. This duty requires that the union act fairly, impartially, and without ill will or discrimination when pursuing a worker"s grievance or when negotiating a new contract with the employer.
Undocumented Workers' Employment Rights
With a few exceptions, undocumented workers enjoy all of the legal rights and remedies provided by both Federal and California law.
Work-Leave, the ADA, and the FMLA
The Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and ADA grant leaves of absence.
Wrongful Termination
The general rule in California is that employees are considered to employed "at will," meaning that they may be fired at any time by their employers, for any reason or for no reason at all. However, there are important exceptions to the "at will" rule.