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Me. Stat. tit. 5 § 4553

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Me. Stat. tit. 5 § 4553
Jurisdiction
Maine (state)
Source
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F.
Denying employment opportunities to a job applicant or employee who is an otherwise qualified individual with a disability, if the denial is based on the need of the covered entity to make reasonable accommodation to the physical or mental impairments of the employee or applicant;

[PL 1995, c. 393, §3 (NEW).]

G.
Using qualification standards, employment tests or other selection criteria that screen out or tend to screen out an individual or a class of individuals based on their protected class status unless the standard, test or other selection criteria, as used by the covered entity, is shown to be job-related for the position in question and is consistent with business necessity; and

[PL 2019, c. 464, §1 (AMD).]

H.
Failing to select and administer tests concerning employment in the most effective manner to ensure that, when the test is administered to a job applicant or employee who has a disability that impairs sensory, manual or speaking skills, the test results accurately reflect the skills, aptitude or any other factor of the applicant or employee that the test purports to measure, rather than reflecting the impaired sensory, manual or speaking skills of the employee or applicant, except when the skills are the factors that the test purports to measure.

[PL 1995, c. 393, §3 (NEW).]

2-A.
Educational institution.
"Educational institution" means any public school or educational program, any public postsecondary institution, any private school or educational program approved for tuition purposes and the governing body of each such school or program.