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Reasonable Accommodation
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Ohio Employer Law Blog
The ADA is a two-way street
Once an employee requests an ADA accommodation, the employer has to give them exactly what they ask for… is NOT the law. In fact, it's the opposite of the law.…
Texas Employment Lawyer
You Asked for an Accommodation at Work and Got the Runaround. Now What?
Working through a disability, a pregnancy, or a serious health condition is hard enough without feeling like your employer is making it harder. If you asked for a change at…
Davis+Gilbert PERKS
ADA Hiring Case Highlights Importance of Safety and the Interactive Process
A medical transportation company declined to hire a deaf applicant as a chair car driver. A federal appellate court upheld the lower court's decision that the decision not to hire…
Women's Rights NY
Menopausal Workers’ Fairness Act to Protect Women in the Workplace Introduced
Reps. Dingell and Clarke Introduce Menopausal Workers’ Fairness Act to Protect Women in the Workplace On July 14, 2026, U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Yvette Clarke (D-NY) introduced the…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Reassignment as a Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA
By By: Eric A. Todd, Samuel W. Newman, Publisher, Sean J. Oliveira
Quick Hits Recent federal circuit decisions and EEOC guidance has impacted how employers should view reassignment under the ADA as a potential accommodation. Federal courts are split on whether reassignment…
GT L&E Blog
California Appellate Court Clarifies Standard for Knowledge of Employee’s Disability
In Husband v. Target Corp., a California appellate court held that FEHA disability liability does not arise where an employer lacked actual or imputed knowledge of an employee's disability at…
India Legal
CCPD directs Miranda House to re-admit transgender student with certified intellectual disability
The Court of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD) has directed Miranda House, University of Delhi, to re-admit a transgender student with a certified benchmark disability after finding…
The Employer Handbook Blog
A Good-Faith Accommodation Process Is Not Optional. This Complaint Explains Why.
Granting a religious accommodation request and then placing the employee on indefinite unpaid leave can itself be retaliation. A federal district court in Illinois recently refused to dismiss a Title…
The Employer Handbook Blog
Sole Survivor: What an ADA Shoe Fight Teaches Employers About Accommodation
A cocktail server with a foot disability wore Skechers sneakers for two years under an accommodation her employer granted. When new management decided sneakers didn’t meet appearance standards, the employer…
Understanding the ADA
Failure to Utilize Internal Reasonable Accommodation Policy Just Might Torpedo a Failure to Accommodate Claim
This week’s blog entry focuses on an unpublished decision, Woodie v. Motorola Solutions, Inc. from the Sixth Circuit decided on March 10, 2025, here. The case highlights the importance of…