--- title: "Updated FAQs: Compliance with ADA during COVID-19" description: The EEOC released additional FAQs regarding how employers should comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act during the coronavirus pandemic. image: https://blog.nisbenefits.com/hubfs/ada%20compliance%20b.jpg --- ![Updated FAQs: Compliance with ADA during COVID-19](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/hubfs/ada%20compliance%20b.jpg) # Updated FAQs: Compliance with ADA during COVID-19 - Home - [Employee Benefit News for School, City and County Employers](https://blog.nisbenefits.com) - Updated FAQs: Compliance with ADA during COVID-19 [ Erin Woulfe ](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/author/erin-woulfe) 05/01/2020 [ Legislative News](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/topic/aca-other-legislative-news), [ COVID-19](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/topic/covid-19) [0 Comments ](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/updated-faqs-ada-compliance-covid-19#postComment) 1 Minutes *Updated September 11, 2020* *1 minute read* On September 8, 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) added 18 new FAQs to its existing guidance regarding how employers should comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) during the coronavirus pandemic. Two FAQs were also updated from the existing guidance. The new and updated guidance clarifies questions employers may ask employees about COVID-19 and about teleworking. [Download the bulletin to see the newly added and revised guidance.](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/hubfs/Blog%20-%20supporting%20documents/bulletin%20-%20EEOC%20Adds%2018%20New%20FAQs%20on%20Coronavirus%20and%20the%20ADA.pdf) Employers that are subject to ADA should familiarize themselves with these new/updated FAQs as well as the [full guidance (Pandemic Preparedness in the Workplace)](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/laws/guidance/pandemic-preparedness-workplace-and-americans-disabilities-act) that the EEOC updated several times this year. Employers are subject to ADA if they have 15 or more employees. 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