---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 37.12"
title: "28"
number: "37.12"
heading: "Standards."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/37.12"
---

# §37.12. Standards.


In any investigation, compliance review, hearing or other proceeding, the standards used to determine whether [section 504](/cfr/28/504.md) has been violated in a complaint alleging employment discrimination shall be the standards applied under title I of the ADA and the provisions of sections [501 through 504](/cfr/28/501..504.md), and [510](/cfr/28/510.md), of the ADA, as such sections relate to employment. [Section 504](/cfr/28/504.md) agencies shall consider the regulations and appendix implementing title I of the ADA, set forth at [29 CFR part 1630](/cfr/29/part1630.md), and case law arising under such regulations, in determining whether a recipient of Federal financial assistance has engaged in an unlawful employment practice.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510; 29 U.S.C. 794 (d); 42 U.S.C. 12117(b); 28 CFR 0.50(l).

### Source

Source: Order No. 1899-94, 59 FR 39904, 39908, Aug. 4, 1994, unless otherwise noted.