2.5.0.0 Di­a­betes and Em­ploy­ment (5) (first pub­li­ca­tion 1984; lat­est re­vi­sion 2009)

Diabetes and Employment (5)
(first publication 1984; latest revision 2009)

Any per­son with di­a­betes, whether in­sulin treat­ed or nonin­sulin treat­ed, should be el­i­gi­ble for any em­ploy­ment for which he or she is oth­er­wise qualified. Em­ploy­ment de­ci­sions should never be based on gen­er­alizations or stereo­types re­gard­ing the ef­fects of di­a­betes. When ques­tions arise about the med­i­cal fitness of a per­son with di­a­betes for a par­tic­u­lar job, a health care pro­fes­sion­al with ex­pertise in treat­ing di­a­betes should per­form an in­di­vid­u­al­ized as­sess­ment. See the ADA po­si­tion state­ment “Di­a­betes and Em­ploy­ment” (https://doi.org/10.2337/dc14-S112).