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Reasonable Accommodation
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California Peculiarities Employment Law Blog
Leave It To California – Post FMLA/CFRA/PDL Leave and FEHA
Seyfarth Synopsis: When must an employer provide leave time in addition to FMLA/CFRA-type leave as a reasonable accommodation? The answer to that question, as with many other leave-related questions, may depend…
California Employment Law Update
Community College District Failed To Reasonably Accommodate Disabled Employee
By Tony Oncidi
Hernandez v. Rancho Santiago Cmty. Coll. Dist., 2018 WL 2057468 (Cal. Ct. App. 2018) Marisa Hernandez worked on and off as an assistant for the District for a number of…
Employment & Labor
THIS is how you reasonably accommodate a disabled employee
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past 16 months discussing bad employers—those that so mishandled employees that they earned a spot on my list of America’s Worst Employers.Today,…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Accommodation Not Include Extended Leave
As often happens with serious injuries, the recovery period is hard to predict. In Severson v. Heartland Woodcraft, Inc., 872 F.3d 476 (7th Cir. 2017), Raymond Severson took his full…
California Employment Law Report
What are the essential functions of a job?
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) requires employers to provide a reasonable accommodation for an individual with a disability to perform the essential functions of the job unless…
Labor & Employment Report
When the FLSA and the ADA Meet…
By Fiona W. Ong
So after a hiatus of many years, the Department of Labor has once again begun issuing opinion letters, which are responses to a particular employer's situation that offer guidance to…
Fair Housing Defense
This is the First Step Necessary to Qualify for a Reasonable Accommodation or Reasonable Modification
I have been watching a curious trend. As written in this space (and elsewhere), many apartment residents and applicants submit requests for reasonable accommodations (changes in rules or a polies) or…
SimplyHR
Update: Additional leave as a reasonable accommodation
As we reported last fall, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals determined that a multi-month continuous leave of absence is beyond the scope of a reasonable accommodation under the ADA.…
The EPL Advisor
Supreme Court Declines to Review Seventh Circuit Case Finding Extended Leave of Absence Is Not a Reasonable Accommodation
The United States Supreme Court declined to review a decision from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals that held a two-to-three month leave of absence following the exhaustion of leave under…
Labor & Employment Report
Yoga Is Not a Reasonable Accommodation
By Fiona W. Ong
As an avid practitioner of yoga (much to my surprise - I always assumed I was too type A for inner focus and meditation), I was highly entertained by a…