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Reasonable Accommodation
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Labor Law Prof Blog
PING: Disability URL: http://donnasealeconsulting.typepad.com/workplacehumanrights/2007/12/disability-work.htmlIP: 10.0.60.16BLOG NAME: Human Rights in the WorkplaceDATE: 12/18/2007 06:27:24 PMThanks to Workplace Prof blog for a post noting the publication of the paper entitled Disability and Work: The Transformation of the Legal Status of Employees with Disabilities in Canada by University of Western Ontario Professor Michael Lynk. The paper’s
Michael Lynk (W. Ontario) has just posted on SSRN his article Disability and Work: The Transformation of the Legal Status of Employees with Disabilities in Canada. Here's the abstract: The…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Will the Americans with Disabilities Act Be Amended?
For over 15 years, the Americans with Disabilities Act has been the subject of lots of hand-wringing inside human resources departments across the country. Phrases such as "reasonable accommodation" and…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently Published Scholarship
The Labor LawyerVolume 23, Number 1, Summer 2007Daniel B. Tukel (left), Testing Accommodation: Is a ‘Level Playing Field’ Unfair?, p. 1.Scott Silverman, The Impact of Recent NLRB Decisions on Supervisory…
New Jersey Law Blog
Employer Not Liable For Refusing To Grant Employee’s Unreasonable Accommodation Request
In a recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, the Court upheld a trial decision finding that an employer did not violate the Americans…
California Employment Law Update
Disabled Employee Bears Burden Of Proving Ability To Perform Essential Duties Of The Job
By Tony Oncidi
Green v. State of Cal., 2007 WL 2388920 (Cal. S. Ct. Aug. 23, 2007) Dwight Green worked as a stationary engineer for the Department of Corrections at the California Institute…
Labor Law Prof Blog
8th Cir: ADA Is Not An Affirmative Action Statute
The Eight Circuit in Huber v. Wal-Mart Stores, No. 06-2238 (8th Cir. May 30, 2007), has added to a circuit split over whether a qualified individual with a disability must…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Issue Preclusion and the ADA
Paul Mollica at Daily Developments in EEO Law (April 13th installment) has the scoop on an interesting case involving how issue preclusion may lead to a plaintiff losing an otherwise…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Top-5 Employment SSRN Downloads
Christine Jolls, Employment Law (94).Cass R. Sunstein, Cost-Benefit Analysis Without Analyzing Costs of Benefits: Reasonable Accommodation, Balancing, and Stigmatic Harms (93). David Weil (photo above), Crafting a Progressive Workplace Regulatory Policy:…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Cass Sunstein on the Costs and Benefits of Reasonable Accommodation
Cass Sunstein has just posted on SSRN his new article, Cost-Benefit Analysis Without Analyzing Costs of Benefits: Accomodation, Balancing, and Stigmatic Harms. Here's the abstract: Is an accommodation “reasonable,” underthe…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Bagenstos on US Airways v. Barnett
Thanks to Larry Solum at the Legal Theory Blog for pointing out that uber-disability law guy, Sam Bagenstos (Washington University), has put out on SSRN his new piece on the…