Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 42 > Chapter 126 > Subchapter I - Employment

• association: when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association" in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. See 1 USC 5
• Commission: means the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission established by section 2000e-4 of this title. See 42 USC 12111
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• county: includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States. See 1 USC 2
• covered entity: means an employer, employment agency, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee. See 42 USC 12111
• direct threat: means a significant risk to the health or safety of others that cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation. See 42 USC 12111
• disability: means , with respect to an individual&mdash. See 42 USC 12102
• drug: means a controlled substance, as defined in schedules I through V of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act [21 U. See 42 USC 12111
• employee: means an individual employed by an employer. See 42 USC 12111
• 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, except that, for two years following the effective date of this subchapter, an employer means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has 25 or more employees for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding year, and any agent of such person. See 42 USC 12111
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• illegal use of drugs: means the use of drugs, the possession or distribution of which is unlawful under the Controlled Substances Act [21 U. See 42 USC 12111
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• qualified individual: means an individual who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the employment position that such individual holds or desires. See 42 USC 12111
• State: means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands of the United States, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. See 42 USC 12103
• undue hardship: means an action requiring significant difficulty or expense, when considered in light of the factors set forth in subparagraph (B). See 42 USC 12111