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Reasonable Accommodation
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Labor & Employment Report
EEOC Expands COVID-19 Guidance on Testing, Medical Inquiries, Confidentiality, Accommodations, and More
By Fiona W. Ong
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission updated its What You Should Know About Covid-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act and Other EEO Laws resource to add Q&As about employers’ authority…
Ogletree Deakins Podcasts
Employment Law Legends, Episode 5: Keeping the Sabbath: Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison (Podcast)
In the fifth episode of the Employment Law Legends podcast series, Paul Rinnan examines the legal battle surrounding the definition of religious accommodations in the workplace and the origins of…
Understanding the ADA
How Much Additional Leave after FMLA Leave is Reasonable?
Today’s blog entry deals with a very common scenario. It works this way. Person goes on FMLA leave. FMLA leave is for 12 weeks. Employers can require employees to exhaust…
Employment Law Lookout
7th Circuit has Spoken: Two Pound Lifting Limit, and Other Restrictions Can be an Unreasonable Accommodation under the ADA
By Kevin Fritz and Erin Dougherty Foley Seyfarth Synopsis: Athleisure company is rightfully able to terminate the employment of individual with physical limitations, despite that individual’s ability to delegate such functions of…
California Employment Law
EEOC Issues Guidance on Reasonable Accommodation of Opioid Use and Addiction
Widespread opioid abuse continues, including among working Americans, subjecting employers to the risk of liability under the intricacies of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and similar state laws. On…
Health Law Prof Blog
The Concept of Reasonable Accommodation in the Context of Anti-Discrimination Policy and its Effect on the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disability
Marie Brousek (Charles University in Prague), The Concept of Reasonable Accommodation in the Context of Anti-Discrimination Policy and its Effect on the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disability,…
Fair Housing Defense
HUD Charges Georgia Property Owner With Disability Discrimination For Failure to Approve a Reasonable Accommodation Request Related to the Rental Due Date
Here is a fact pattern professional apartment management should work to avoid. An applicant signs a lease for an apartment home. Rent is due on the first of the month.…
Pannone Corporate News and Opinion
HR Update: disability discrimination – dismissal and the extent of the duty to make reasonable adjustments; and how to deal with anonymous evidence
What’s New? This month we look at updated pandemic data protection guidance from the ICO, preventing furlough fraud, and will working from home by the new normal? More…. Recommending reasonable…
Employment Law Lookout
Blog Series – Managing a Future Remote Workforce
By Christina Jaremus, Patrick D. Joyce, Louisa Johnson, and Katherine Mendez Seyfarth Synopsis: In part one of a series concerning managing the future tele-workforce, below are some tips to navigate…
Understanding the ADA
Burden of Proof for Determining Essential Functions of the Job
Before getting started on the blog entry of the day, yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the ADA. Happy anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of the things that comes up is why…