Topic
Reasonable Accommodation
1,014 published works
Fair Housing Defense
Can Management Avoid Responding to a Reasonable Accommodation Request When a Resident is Facing an Eviction Action? No.
Readers of this space know that I regularly write that professional apartment management maintains an absolute obligation to review, evaluate, and respond to every reasonable accommodation (and/or reasonable modification) request…
HR Law Talk
Can Employer Require Impaired Employee to Take Medication?
The EEOC says no. In a recent case, the EEOC filed suit against a paper company in Michigan over this issue. The employee had a seizure at work and was…
FMLA Insights
Requiring an Employee to Return from FMLA Leave “Without Restrictions” or “Fully Healed” Is Playing with Fire
By Jeff Nowak
Do you know what happens when you maintain a policy or practice that requires an employee to return to work without restrictions or "100% healed"? You pay. A lot. Just…
Understanding the ADA
Can Employees Trust Human Resources? Maybe That’s Not the Right Question? Timing of Reasonable Accommodation Request and Causation under the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act Are Not the Same
Robin Shea's latest blog entry, which can be found here. Discusses some of the things people say about HR, including: "HR protect the company's interests, not yours;" "if you go…
Minnesota Employer
Another Federal Circuit Court Rejects Telecommuting as a Reasonable Accommodation
Another federal circuit court of appeals recently rejected the argument that telecommuting was required as a reasonable accommodation for a disabled employee. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals made waves…
Employment Law Landscape
No Good Deed: When Unnecessary ADA Accommodation May Become Required ADA Accommodation
Managers who are trying to do employees a good turn may find themselves in an unwanted predicament, if the EEOC ever winds up getting involved. Most of us know that…
Labor & Employment Insights
Happy Birthday ADA and How We Can Celebrate
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is 25 years old this year. I was a newly minted lawyer when this law emerged in 1990 and as I have grown, so…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Beware of Vague Requests for Accommodation
With an aging population, we are already seeing more medical care issues in the work place. There will be more, not fewer, requests for accommodation. Since the ADA was amended…
FMLA Insights
DOL and EEOC Explain How They Will Approach FMLA and Reasonable Accommodation Enforcement
By Jeff Nowak
This week, I had the pleasure of presenting with Department of Labor and EEOC officials on key developments out of Washington with respect to leave management and accommodations. Our presentation was part…
Employment & Labor
Governor Signs Assembly Bill No. 987 – Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation is Protected Activity under FEHA
By Beth V. West
This bill was in direct response to the decision in Rope v. Auto-Clor System of Washington, Inc. (2013) 220 Cal.App.4th 635 (2013), which found that an employee who merely makes…