Your rights to housing and employment-Your rights to housing and employment are the same as your right to public accommodations. In general, you have a right to whatever housing you can afford and whatever job you can carry out. In most states, refusing someone housing or employment because they have AIDS is illegal. Most states have laws forbidding discrimination on grounds of disability; and, in most states, AIDS is defined as a disability. Whether HIV infection is also defined as a disability depends on the state: ask a lawyer. Therefore, as long as you can pay your rent or mortgage and can carry out your job, you may not be refused housing or employment or be fired because of the disabling effects of AIDS. You also have a right to expect your employer to make reasonable accommodations to your disability. If your job involves heavy lifting, for instance, and you tire easily, you can ask your employer to reassign you to a less strenuous job. The general principle is that you have a right to expect your employer to modify your job in ways that do not compromise your usefulness to the job. Again, as with public accommodations, if you think you have been forced out of a job or housing because of your HIV status, file a complaint with the state human relations or civil rights commission. If the complaint involves employment discrimination, and if you win, you are entitled to back pay, attorney’s fees, and damages.*199\191\2*
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