2017 Delaware Code
Title 19 - Labor
CHAPTER 7. EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
Subchapter V Employment First Act
§ 742. Definitions.

Universal Citation: 19 DE Code § 742 (2017)

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Competitive employment" means work in the competitive labor market that is performed on a full-time or part-time basis in an integrated setting and for which a person with a disability is compensated at or above the minimum wage, but not less than the customary wage and level of benefits paid by the employer for the same or similar work performed by persons without disabilities.

(2) "Disability" means, with respect to an individual:

a. A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits 1 or more major life activities of such individual;

b. A record of such an impairment; or

c. Being regarded as having such an impairment,

as defined in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended [42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq.].

(3) "Integrated setting" means with respect to an employment outcome, a setting typically found in the community in which persons with disabilities interact with persons without disabilities, other than persons without disabilities who are providing services to those persons with disabilities, to the same extent that persons without disabilities in comparable positions interact with other persons.

(4) "Working age" means 14 years of age or older in accordance with § 505 of this title.

78 Del. Laws, c. 331, § 1.;

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