The ADA law was passed in 1992. The law is interpreted as follows:
"An employer may not ask or require a job applicant to take a medical examination before a job offer...After a person starts work, a medical exmination or inquiry of an employee must be job-related and consistent with business necessity. Employees may conduct employee medical examinations where there is evidence of a job performance or safety problem"
A statute of limitations may exist but that I am not certain of. When filing with the EEOC - the limit is 300 days from the last occurrence.
Sharonda
>From: woobie@telebot.com (Michele)
>Reply-To: adhesions@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@talk.obgyn.net>
>Subject: EEOC ? for Sharonda
>Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:27:16 -0500
>
>I have a question. I recall a previous post on another message board
>regarding EEOC law. In one post I thought I recalled you stating that
>under EEOC law, an employer could not require a phyical exam.
>
>Do you know when that law came into effect? I was required in 1994 to
>take a physical exam at a doctor's office that I worked for. I was a
>receptionist. I remember feeling very upset that I was required to do
>this, given that they would not allow me to see my *own* doctor. I had
>to have a physical with the very doctors I worked for. That does not
>seem right to me.
>
>Going on recollection of past post--can you confirm the law?
>
>Michele
>