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Reasonable Accommodation
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Nimble Services Blog
What happens When the FMLA and the ADA Collide?
By Guest Blogger Stella Skaljac Esq., SHRM-SCPFor years, employee handbooks contained policies that explicitly stated employment would automatically terminate if an employee failed to return to work after taking leave…
Understanding the ADA
Do’s and Don’ts of the Interactive Process
My daughter is on break this week, and next week is going to be a little hectic. So, I had a moment to do a blog entry that is quite…
California Workplace Law Blog
Disability Discrimination and Reasonable Accommodation under California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) [1]
If your business has five or more employees, your business is one of the millions in California that has a duty to provide reasonable accommodations for its employees with known…
Iowa Employer Law Blog
“Reasonable Accommodation” for Marijuana Use – Part one: O Canada – Appears to have Gotten it Right
By rsamson@dickinsonlaw.com Dickinson Mackaman Tyler Hagen P.C.
A hat tip to Bennet Jones, LLP for its March 6, 2019, blog post entitled, “Inability to measure and mitigate impairment from medical cannabis means employers can avoid accommodation requests…
Special Education Law Insights
A Distinction with a Difference? Accommodations vs. Modifications
By FranczekPC
If you've ever been confused by the use of the terms "accommodations" and "modifications" in the realm of disability student rights, you're not alone. Our friends over at LRP Publications,…
Understanding the ADA
Qualified Otherwise Qualified Means Factoring in Reasonable Accommodations
Today’s blog entry returns us back to the world of employment law. One of the things that drives me crazy is that people, including judges, sometimes forget whether a person…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
A 💩 disability discrimination case
A call center employee, suffering from Crohn's Disease, asks his manager for some flexibility in the company's break schedules or other accommodations for his bathroom needs. Instead, his supervisor accuses…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Flesh Eating Bacteria Ate My Homework
If you’re like most folks, you’ve been wondering “when am I going to see a story mentioning both flesh eating bacteria and reasonable accommodation.” Wonder no more. Gary Brunckhorst worked…
Iowa Employment Law Blog
Eighth Circuit Case Provides Guidance on How to Handle the Vexing Problem of Extended Medical Leave as a Reasonable Accommodation
How much extra leave is reasonable for an employee who has exhausted FMLA but is not yet capable of returning to work? Does an employer have to keep the absent…
Labor & Employment Report
Another State Finds No Federal Preemption of Its Medical Marijuana Law
Employer obligations to consider the use of medical marijuana as a reasonable accommodation just got murkier with a new case out of Delaware, Chance v. Kraft Heinz Foods Co., decided…