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Interactive Process
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California Court Dismisses Deficient Disability Claims In EEOC-Initiated Systemic Action
By Alex W. Karasik Seyfarth Synopsis: In an EEOC-initiated systemic lawsuit alleging that a senior living and nursing facility operator violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”) by failing to…
California Employment Law Update
Community College District Failed To Reasonably Accommodate Disabled Employee
By Tony Oncidi
Hernandez v. Rancho Santiago Cmty. Coll. Dist., 2018 WL 2057468 (Cal. Ct. App. 2018) Marisa Hernandez worked on and off as an assistant for the District for a number of…
Hiring To Firing Law Blog
New York City Employers will be Subject to a New Accommodation Law Effective October 2018
Q: I am a New York City employer. What do I need to know about the amendments to the law regarding accommodations? A: Effective October 15, 2018, employers in New…
The EPL Advisor
Employer’s Ultimatum Supports Employee’s ADA Failure to Accommodate Claim
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama in McClain v. Tenax Corp. recently denied in part an employer’s motion for summary judgment on a disabled employee’s…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Employers Should Engage In the Interactive Process Even If They Believe the Employee Is Not Qualified.
Diligent and well informed employers know that it is the best practice to engage in an individualized assessment of a requested accommodation. Sometimes an employer may be tempted to refuse…
The EPL Advisor
Recent 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Case Demonstrates Importance of Documentation of the Interactive Process
On May 4, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Brown v. Milwaukee Board of School Directors affirmed the summary judgment dismissal of a former employee’s…
Understanding the ADA
The Interactive Process
Here, in Decatur, Georgia, and for that matter in the Atlanta metropolitan area generally, kids start school very early and end very early. In Decatur’s case, they start school the…
Employment Law Matters
Employee’s failure to actively engage in interactive process supports dismissal of ADA claim.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires both a disabled employee and her employer to work interactively to identify reasonable accommodations for the disabled employee. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court…
Understanding the ADA
Admissibility of settlement offers and their impact on the interactive process
Obviously, I missed a blog entry last week. I have an explanation. My daughter was on break, my wife took a couple of days off towards the end of the…
The EPL Advisor
Arkansas Federal Court: Failure to Accommodate, in and of Itself, Violates the ADA
Despite the lack of a clear causal connection between an employer’s failure to grant an employee’s request for additional training and its decision to terminate her employment, an Arkansas federal…