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Reasonable Accommodation
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Employment Law Watch
End of year reminder for NY employers: NYC’s cooperative dialogue law is in effect
By Cindy Schmitt Minniti, Mark S. Goldstein, Leora Grushka
On October 15, 2018, the New York City Human Rights Law (CHRL) was amended to require employers to engage in a “cooperative dialogue” with individuals who may be entitled to…
Labor & Employment Insights
Crosstown Traffic! Facts Surrounding Employee’s ADA/FMLA Request to Avoid Bad Traffic Not Enough
Not all requests for accommodation or FMLA leave will fit into neat boxes like “pregnancy” or “knee surgery.” Because the ADA definition of a disability includes any impairment that affects…
Labor & Employment Report
Leaving Work Early Due to Fear of Rush-Hour Traffic Is Not a Reasonable Accommodation
An employee requested that she be permitted to leave work early every day due to her anxiety triggered by driving home in heavy traffic (those of us in major metropolitan…
FB Employment Discrimination Blog
So Sue Me: One MORE “Low Hanging Fruit” Case in 2018
Well, I was wrong – my post last week was not the last one of the year, as I had promised, dealing with the EEOC’s targeting of “low hanging fruit.”…
Employment Law Business Guide
On the Day of President Bush’s Memorial Service We Focus on His Signature Legislation; The Americans with Disabilities Act
President George H.W. Bush may very well be best remembered for his role in bringing the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) to the American workplace. Bush engaged in bi-partisan leadership…
Employment & Labor
What can “Elf” teach us about the ADA?
Friday night, the Hyman clan carried out our annual holiday tradition of watching "Elf." Since much of the story took place in and around various workplaces, this year I decided…
FB Employment Discrimination Blog
Employers, Do You Have “Meaningful Measures” In Place to Combat Disability Discrimination? #ADA
By: Amy Epstein Gluck What’s not a good idea? Terminating an employee who requests a reasonable accommodation. Or failing to even discuss said accommodation. One employer found this out the…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
No Adverse Employment Action, No Failure-to-Accommodate Claim, Tenth Circuit Rules
The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) includes within its definition of “discriminate,” an employer’s failure to provide a reasonable accommodation to a qualified individual with a disability. But, is a…
FB Employment Discrimination Blog
Don’t Cry: You Can’t Peel An Onion But You Won Your Case!
This disability discrimination case arises from Northern Ireland – but the principle is applicable here in the US. Seems that a woman developed glaucoma and chronic uveitis when a teenager,…
Accessibility Defense
Reasonable accommodation requests – what can a landlord ask for?
By Richard Hunt
A client of mine was recently advised that the client’s FHA forms for reasonable accommodation requests were illegal because “The law specifically prohibits inquiry into the nature or extent of…