Topic
Disability Accommodation
352 published works
Simple Justice
Gaming The Disability Game
To say that a student in a wheel chair needs a ramp to enter a building is easy to understand. Or that blind students need textbooks in Braille. Few would…
Levy Employment Law Blog
Focus on Disabilities Part II: Must the Employee Disclose a Medical Condition?
By Tracey Levy
Can an employee receive a workplace accommodation without disclosing the employee’s medical condition? The answer, as with so many seemingly “simple” legal questions, is that it depends. Policies Can Be…
2Civility Blog
Commission on Access to Justice Seeking Proposals for Court Disability Access Grant, Access to Justice Award Nominations
By Laura Bagby
The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice (ATJ Commission) is seeking proposals for two initiatives. Disability Access Grant The ATJ Commission and the Access to Justice Division of…
Achkar Law Blog
Large Court Award: The Cost of Failing to Accommodate Disability
When an employee discloses a medical condition that affects their ability to perform their job, employers in British Columbia have a clear duty to accommodate under the BC Human Rights…
Davis+Gilbert PERKS
New York’s COVID‑19 Quarantine Leave Law Expires
The New York law requiring leave for employees who are subject to a COVID-related quarantine or isolation order expires tomorrow. The requirement, which had been in effect since March 2020,…
San Francisco Employment Law Firm Blog
Remote Work as An Accommodation To An Employee’s Disability Under California Law
By Arkady Itkin
As remote work continues to reshape the workplace, both California employees and employers are grappling with a key question:When must an employer allow remote work as a reasonable accommodation to…
Accessibility Defense
There was an old woman who swallowed a spider – reforming California’s Unruh Act
By Richard Hunt
In the children’s nonsense song written by Burl Ives an old woman swallows a fly for reasons unknown and then: swallows a spider to catch the fly swallows a bird…
Municipal Minute
Supreme Court Rules for Student Regarding Proper Standard for ADA and Rehabilitation Act Claims
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion setting forth the standard that must be applied by courts in cases involving alleged failures to accommodate students with disabilities under…
Accessibility Defense
“Toddler mauled by service dog” – the cost of thoughtless disability letters.
By Richard Hunt
The headline was all too familiar, “Toddler mauled by service dog.” We have seen it before when untrained animals were allowed on airlines or in other public places.(6) When it…
Labor & Employment Insights
Better Late Than Never? Not in the 5th Circuit: Delayed Action on Accommodation May Be ADA Violation
By Sarahanne Y. Vaughan, Anne R. Yuengert
Earlier this month, in Strife v. Aldine Independent School District, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an employer’s delayed accommodation of an employee’s disability could amount to a…