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Reasonable Accommodation
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Ogletree Deakins Insights
Federal Court in North Carolina Rules Regarding Reasonable Accommodations
By ByStacyM.Bunck@ogletree.com, Kelly S. Hughes
On February 24, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina issued an opinion in Brown v. Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. regarding disability discrimination, reasonable accommodations,…
Understanding the ADA
Failure to Accommodate, Direct Evidence, and the Interactive Process
Today’s blog entry comes from a connection to mine on LinkedIn, Janette Levey Frisch, an employment lawyer in the New York City area (East Brunswick, New Jersey), blogging at EmpLaWyerologist,…
Who Is My Employee?
Who Pays for Reasonable Accommodations to Staffing Agency Workers? Ask Shorty.
Suppose you’ve got a staffing agency worker (we’ll call him Shorty) who’s a bit vertically challenged and is self-conscious about it. He tells you he’s gonna need some time off…
Association Alert
Must Your Association Ban Smoking as a Reasonable Accommodation? NO
By Daniel Miske
Summary If smoking is otherwise allowed in your association, you do not need to ban it as a reasonable accommodation for a person with asthma. The Facts Phyllis Davis suffers…
Archer Employment Law
New Jersey Appellate Division Finds Employer’s Pregnancy Leave Policy Discriminatory and Warns Against Just Equal Treatment
By callen
(Click here for printable PDF) Last month, the New Jersey Appellate Division published its first opinion interpreting the New Jersey Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a statute which amended the NJ…
Employment Law Lookout
Ask, or You Shall Not Receive: 5th Circuit Nixes Accommodation Claim for Employee’s Failure to Ask for an Accommodation
By Stan Hill and Cary Reid Burke Seyfarth Synopsis: Recently, when affirming summary judgment to the employer in a disability discrimination case, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued two…
Labor & Employment Report
A Marriage of Convenience? EEOC Continues To Push Non-Competitive Transfer as Reasonable Accommodation
By Fiona W. Ong
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an employee unable to perform the essential functions of his/her job must be in want of a transfer. And it is also quite…
Employment Law Worldview
SPB In-Depth: Service Animals as Reasonable Workplace Disability Accommodations (US)
Many individuals with disabilities use service animals to help them fully engage in everyday life. Animals, particularly dogs, can be trained to perform a wide range of tasks to help…
Health Care and Life Sciences
Court Declines To Certify Class Of Sexually Assaulted Hospital Patients
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Christina M. Janice, and Alex W. Karasik Seyfarth Synopsis: In Ituah, et al. v. Austin State Hospital, a federal magistrate judge in Texas recently recommended…
California Employment Law Update
Employer That “Mistakenly” Terminated Employee On Disability Leave May Be Liable For Discrimination
By Tony Oncidi
Glynn v. Superior Court, 42 Cal. App. 5th 47 (2019) John Glynn worked as a pharmaceutical sales representative before he commenced a medical leave of absence for a serious eye…