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Reasonable Accommodation
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Michigan Employment Law Advisor
Is Telecommuting a Reasonable Accommodation Under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
By Jason Shinn
Michigan employers dodged a bullet (sort of) on when it comes to whether telecommuting must be considered as a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Specifically, in a…
FMLA Insights
EEOC Commissioner Offers Helpful Guidance to Employers on Providing Accommodations to Pregnant Employees
By Jeff Nowak
Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting with EEOC Commissioner Victoria Lipnic on the EEOC's pregnancy discrimination guidance and how employers should address pregnancy accommodations in the workplace. Our presentation…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Ink Spilt, Views Split on Attendance as Essential Job Function under ADA
What better place to contemplate the ADA issue of whether coming to work is an essential function of a job than at the recent Disability Management Employer Coalition (DMEC) Compliance…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
Sixth Circuit Holds That Ford Motor Co. Was Not Required to Accommodate Telecommuting
On April 10, 2015, in an eagerly awaited decision interpreting the reasonable accommodation provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth…
EEOC Year-End Countdown
En Banc Sixth Circuit Reverses Itself And Finds That Nearly Unlimited Telecommuting Is Not A Reasonable Accommodation Under The ADA
By Christopher M. Cascino and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. In EEOC v. Ford Motor Co., No. 12-2484 (6th Cir. Apr. 10, 2015), a case we blogged about previously here and…
School Law
Webinar: Top Tips for Accommodations under the ADA – Who’s Ready for Summer Camp?
By Linda L. Yoder, Leander A. Dolphin
With summer just around the corner, summer camps and youth services providers are making preparations for the fast-approaching camp season. We invite you to join Linda Yoder and Leander Dolphin on May…
California Workplace Law Blog
Be Careful What You Say—It Might End Up in a Declaration to Defeat Summary Judgment
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently reversed summary judgment for an employer, finding that a former employee’s self-serving declaration and deposition testimony regarding alleged disability discrimination were sufficient to…
Employer Law Report
Sixth Circuit in EEOC v. Ford: Sometimes showing up really is an essential function of the job
By Brian Hall
Almost a year ago, we wrote that a panel of the Sixth Circuit in EEOC v. Ford Motor Company, bucking the trend elsewhere, had held that an employer could be…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Common Sense Trumps EEOC’s Position in ADA Telework Case
When I wrote last week that telework was “in the air” because we were anxiously awaiting the en banc Sixth Circuit decision in EEOC v. Ford Motor Company, little did…
Understanding the ADA
Telecommuting as a reasonable accommodation: EEOC v. Ford Motor Company en banc Decision
In a comment to this blog entry, I discussed the panel decision of the Sixth Circuit in EEOC v. Ford Motor Company where the panel held that telecommuting was a…