Topics will include:

The New Definitions and Standards for Defining Disability

• Background to the ADAAA - Insights into the Congressional findings and purposes
• Rejecting Supreme Court decisions that narrowed the scope of coverage and expanded major life activities
• The dispute over the meaning attached to "substantially limits" — and what this means for employers

The New Rules of Construction and the Brave New World of "Regarded As" Having An Impairment

• Mitigating measures
• Transitory and minor impairments

Action Steps to Prepare Now for the January 2009 Effective Date