---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 1251.540"
title: "14"
number: "1251.540"
heading: "Employment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/1251.540"
---

# §1251.540. Employment.

- (a) **General.** No qualified individual shall, on the basis of disability, be subjected to discrimination in employment under any program or activity to which this part applies.
- (b) **Employment discrimination standards.** The standards used to determine whether [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section has been violated shall be the standards applied under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. [12](/usc/42/12.md),[111](/usc/42/111.md) et seq.) and, as such sections relate to employment, the provisions of sections [501 through 504](/cfr/14/501..504.md) and [510](/cfr/14/510.md) of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. [12201-12204](/usc/42/12201-12204.md) and [12210](/usc/42/12210.md)), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110-325), as such standards are implemented in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's regulation at [29 CFR part 1630](/cfr/29/part1630.md), as amended.

## Notes

### Amendments

[81 FR 3713, Jan. 22, 2016]

### Source

Source: 53 FR 25882, 25885, July 8, 1988, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 504 (29 U.S.C. 794)

### Source

Source: 51 FR 26862, July 28, 1986, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[81 FR 3713, Jan. 22, 2016]