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Reasonable Accommodation
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Labor Law Prof Blog
Top-5 Employment SSRN Downloads
Lawrence D. Rosenthal, ReasonableAccommodations for Individuals Regarded as Having Disabilities Underthe Americans with Disabilities Act? Why No Should Not Be the Answer (116).Edward A. Zelinsky, Maryland's Wal-Mart Act: Policy and…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Top-5 Employment SSRN Downloads
Lawrence D. Rosenthal, ReasonableAccommodations for Individuals Regarded as Having Disabilities Underthe Americans with Disabilities Act? Why No Should Not Be the Answer (95).Edward A. Zelinsky, Maryland's Wal-Mart Act: Policy and…
Colorado Homeowners Association Law
How The Fair Housing Act Applies To Your Association
By Winzenburg, Leff, Purvis & Payne, LLP
Today, community associations are being challenged to provide services for the full breadth of members. A challenging area is accommodating the needs of disabled members. The Fair Housing Act require associations to…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Porter on Resolving the Conflict between Disabled Employees and Their Co-Workers
Nicole Porter (St. Louis) has posted on the bepress Legal Respository her new paper entitled: Reasonable Burdens: Resolving the Conflict between Disabled Employees and Their Co-Workers.Here's the abstract:This Article addresses…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Not a Good Law Firm Defense for Disability Discrimination
This is classic. From Ted Frank over at Overlawyered:Scanning through million-dollar verdicts looking for Overlawyered stories, I found this $1.1 million verdictagainst a California law firm for failure to accommodate…
California Employment Law Update
Epileptic Heavy-Equipment Operator May Have Been Discriminated Against On Basis Of Disability
By Tony Oncidi
Dark v. Curry County, 451 F.3d 1078 (9th Cir. 2006) Robert Dark, an epileptic since the age of 16, worked as a maintenance and construction worker for Curry County, Oregon…
Labor Law Prof Blog
An Employee’s Duty to Disclose a Previously Latent (and Potentially Dangerous) Disability to His Employer
Here's an interesting decision recently issued by the 9th Circuit concerning not only the obligations an employer has to reasonably accommdate a disabled employee, who until recently has not shown…
California Employment Law Update
Temporary County Employee Was Not Discriminated Against On The Basis Of Her Disability
By Tony Oncidi
Jenkins v. County of Riverside, 138 Cal. App. 4th 593 (2006) Evelyn Jenkins worked as a full-time “Office Assistant II” for the County for six years before her employment was…
California Employment Law Update
Receptionist Whose Job Was Filled While She Was On A 7-Month “Stress Leave” Was Not Discriminated Against
By Tony Oncidi
Williams v. Genentech, 139 Cal. App. 4th 357 (2006) Rochelle Williams, a receptionist at Genentech, was criticized by her supervisors for mishandling an incident involving company security. (Instead of following…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Maybe This Explains The Supreme Court’s ADA Cases
The Oregon Supreme Court has just ruled against an employee's claim that his employer had a duty to accommodatehis marijuana use under Oregon's anti-disability discrimination law. The employee, a millwright,…