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Disability Accommodation
352 published works
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Virginia Employers Soon Must Adopt, Provide Accommodation Policies to Employees With Disabilities
By Alyson J. Guyan, Teresa Burke Wright
Starting on July 1, 2021, most Virginia employers must include information in their employee handbooks about reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities and provide that information directly to any employee…
Real Estate & Construction
Federal Judge Rejects Plaintiff’s Attempt to Inflate Unruh Act Statutory Damages by Making Multiple Visits to Business
By Eden Anderson Seyfarth Synopsis: A federal judge precluded the plaintiff from multiplying his statutory damages under the Unruh Act by his alleged number of visits to the defendant’s business.…
Employment Law Worldview
Fourth Circuit: ADA Does Not Require Employers Create Job-Sharing Positions As A Disability Accommodation (US)
Squire Patton Boggs Summer Associate Sydney Finley summarizes a recent opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit addressing an employers’ obligation to provide job-sharing as…
Health Law Prof Blog
Extra Time Is A Virtue: How Standardized Testing Accommodations After College Throw Students with Disabilities Under the Bus
Haley Moss (Taylor University), Extra Time Is A Virtue: How Standardized Testing Accommodations After College Throw Students with Disabilities Under the Bus, 13 Albany Gov’t L. Rev. (2020):This Article explores…
Savine Employment Law Blog
Leave of Absence Webinar Available On-Demand
By Irene Savine
Need a break? Why not spend it with employment law attorney Gary Savine as he and an expert panel discuss how to manage employees when they take leaves of absence…
Litigators at Work
EEOC Hosts Virtual Hearing on Civil Rights Implications of COVID-19 Pandemic in the Workplace
By Ana C. Shields, Brittany A. Tarazona
In its first all-virtual/remote video-cast hearing, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) discussed workplace civil rights implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for employees and employers. (Transcript of the April 28,…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Commemorate Global Disability Awareness Day By Getting Useful Tips on How to Better Serve Customers with Disabilities
By the Seyfarth ADA Title III Specialty Team Seyfarth Synopsis: The Seyfarth ADA Title III Specialty Team shares thirty tips for how to provide great service to people with disabilities…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
For Once, Good Deed Goes Unpunished
What is an employer’s risk in terminating an employee who has suffered an injury or becomes disabled and no longer can perform the essential functions of the position? How can…
Labor & Employment Law Perspectives
Return to Work Resistance: Navigating the ADA Interactive Process and COVID-19 Disability Accommodation Requests
By Katharine O. Beattie, Sara J. Higgins
As vaccine proliferation continues, employers are preparing to welcome their workforces back to offices and job sites across the country. While many Americans are eager to return to pre-pandemic life,…
Employee Rights Blog
An Employer’s Duty To Accommodate
By Bram Lecker
The human condition is such that anyone can suffer an illness or become disabled at any time. It can occur suddenly or manifest itself over time. It can impact your…