"Government Acts Against AIDS-Based Job Discrimination"

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"Government Acts Against AIDS-Based Job Discrimination"

United Press International (12/28/90)
Bass, Janet

Abstract: Washington--An HIV-infected pharmacist has won a landmark case on the New York state level protecting his right as a disabled person to be protected from employment-related discrimination. The Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services said a hospital violated the pharmacist's rights when it told him he could only have a job if he agreed not to prepare IV solutions. The Weschester County Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y., was required to hire the pharmacist and pay him lost wages or risk losing federal funds. The case has become the federal government's first AIDS anti-discrimination enforcement action. The HHS civil rights office found Westchester violated section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The hospital maintained that although preparation of IV solutions was not an invasive procedure, the end product would be used for such procedures, and it denied any illegality in its actions to protect its patients from risk.

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