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Equal Opportunity Board

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IS FOR EVERYONE!
Discrimination Against Persons With AIDS OR WHO ARE HIV+ Is Illegal

Persons who have been diagnosed with AIDS or are HIV+ are considered persons with a disability. Chapter 11-A of the Code of Miami-Dade County provides that persons with disabilities are entitled to enjoy life free of discrimination in housing; in employment; at places of public accommodation, and with respect to credit and financing practices.

EMPLOYMENT: It is illegal for employers and labor unions to discriminate against anyone on the basis of their disability with respect to hiring, promoting, discharging, training, transferring, the terms and conditions of employment, wages, or any benefits or privileges of employment.

It is illegal to fail or refuse to make a reasonable accommodation for a disabled individual.
This means that employers are required to make necessary adaptations to the known physical or mental limitations of an employee or qualified applicant with a disability unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the employer’s business.

HOUSING: It is illegal to refuse to sell, purchase, rent, lease, finance, negotiate, deny or evict a person from any dwelling because of their disability. Chapter 11-A requires that owners of dwellings allow disabled persons, at their own expense, to make reasonable modifications as may be necessary to afford them full enjoyment of the premises.

PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS: It is illegal to discriminate against a person with a disability by refusing, withholding, or denying any services, access, advantages, goods, facilities or privileges. Examples of a public accommodation include but are not limited to places of lodging; establishments serving food or drink; theaters, stadiums and museums; bakery, grocery, clothing and hardware stores, places of recreation and private schools.

Places of public accommodation are required by law to make reasonable modifications for the disabled including modification of policies, practices or procedures to insure that individuals with disabilities can fully and equally enjoy any goods, services, facilities privileges or advantages offered by the public accommodation.

DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION IS ILLEGAL!