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Reasonable Accommodation
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Employment Law Matters
How much “interactive process” is enough to preclude ADA liability?
To support a failure-to-accommodate claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a plaintiff must establish both a prima facie case of discrimination and an employer’s failure to accommodate it. But…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
Eleventh Circuit – Indefinite Light Duty Is Not A Reasonable Accommodation
The Eleventh Circuit confirmed that indefinite light duty is not a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and employers are not required to create a permanent light-duty…
California Workplace Law Blog
California Court of Appeal Expands FEHA’s Reasonable Accommodation Requirements to Employees Who are Associated with a Person with Disabilities
By Shane R. Larsen, Cary G. Palmer
In Castro-Ramirez v. Dependable Highway Express, Inc., decided April 4, 2016, the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District held California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) requires employers to…
Labor & Employment Insights
Never Forever: Indefinite Extension of Light-Duty Not Required Under ADA (Per Eleventh Circuit)
Employers evaluating ADA reasonable accommodation requests often must decide whether they have to provide extended light duty for an injured employee. In Frazier-White v. Gee, the Eleventh Circuit recently provided…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
Eleventh Circuit Nixes Disability Discrimination Claim Due to Employee’s Inability to Work Overtime
Employers increasingly feel that they are forced to bend, or sometimes even break, company rules to reasonably accommodate disabled workers under federal and state law. In a victory for employers,…
World of Employment
Utah Provides Additional Protections for Pregnant And Breastfeeding Women in the Workplace
The Utah Legislature has passed SB 59, which amends the Utah Antidiscrimination Act to provide additional protections for pregnant and breastfeeding women in the workplace. This law requires employers to…
Employment & Labor
Judgment Day Dooms Employer: No New Trial In EEOC Case After Finding Of Failure To Accommodate Anti-Christ Fears
By Gerald L. Maatman Jr. and Alex W. Karasik In EEOC v. Consol Energy, Inc., Case No. 13-CV-215 (N. D. W.Va. Feb. 9, 2015), the EEOC brought a religious discrimination…
Fair Housing Defense
Some Thoughts On Documenting Responses to Reasonable Accommodation Requests
I do not typically use my own active cases as examples here at the Fair Housing Defense blog, but a similar issue has come up in two of them (one…
Fair Housing Defense
Marijuana Use and Reasonable Accommodation Requests
I have received two inquiries over the past couple of weeks for guidance on a confounding issue: medical marijuana. As I write this post, more than 20 states (and the…
Understanding the ADA
Does an ASL Interpreter Mean that Person is Doing the Essential Functions of Another’s Job and Other Matters
This case was pointed out to me by a member of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Bar Association, of which I am a member, on its facebook page, which…