Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities by any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance or by any program or activity conducted by a federal executive agency. Section 504 protects not only people with disabilities who apply to and participate in such programs, but also job applicants and employees of the organizations that provide them. Each federal agency issues, administers and enforces its own set of Section 504 regulations tailored to its programs, although all such regulations share common requirements.
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