ADA
What is the full name for ADA?
For ADA, full name is Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; employee threshold is 15; requirement is No covered entity shall discriminate against a qualified individual on the basis of disability in regard to job application procedures, the hiring, advancement, or discharge of employees, employee compensation, job training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment; counting note is any worker who qualifies as an employee is counted, including part-time employees, seasonal employees, and temporary employees, verified against its source on 2026-11-01.
The term "employer" means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has 15 or more employees for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and any agent of such person
— uscode.house.gov, retrieved 2026-09-29
- Law
- ADA our reading
- Full name
- Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 verified
- Employee threshold
- 15 verified
- Requirement
- No covered entity shall discriminate against a qualified individual on the basis of disability in regard to job application procedures, the hiring, advancement, or discharge of employees, employee compensation, job training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. verified
- Counting note
- any worker who qualifies as an employee is counted, including part-time employees, seasonal employees, and temporary employees verified
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
Where each value comes from
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Law and Full name
in enacting the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) [42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.], Congress intended that the Act
Requirement
No covered entity shall discriminate against a qualified individual on the basis of disability in regard to job application procedures, the hiring, advancement, or discharge of employees, employee compensation, job training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.
Counting note
In determining whether an employer is covered, any worker who qualifies as an employee is counted, including part-time employees, seasonal employees, and temporary employees. Independent contractors and other non-employees, such as owners, are not counted.
— all from uscode.house.gov, retrieved 2026-09-29
Sources
- uscode.house.govhttps://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section12111&num=0&edition=prelim
- uscode.house.govhttps://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section12112&num=0&edition=prelim
- uscode.house.govhttps://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section12101&num=0&edition=prelim
- eeoc.govhttps://www.eeoc.gov/employers/how-do-you-count-number-employees-employer-has