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Reasonable Accommodation
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Connecticut Employment Law Blog
More Road Rules: Telecommuting as a “Reasonable Accommodation” Under ADA Gets an Update
Last year, my colleague Gabe Jiran, had a series of posts on telecommuting as a possible reasonable accommodation. In one post, he reported on a Sixth Circuit decision that allowed…
Minnesota Employer
Sixth Circuit Holds That Telecommuting Is Not A Reasonable Accommodation After All
After previously holding last year that telecommuting may be required as a reasonable accommodation, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an en banc order vacating that decision. This time,…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Miles’ Law at Work in Telework Case Against the EEOC?
With telework as a reasonable accommodation under the ADA in the air as we await anxiously the Sixth Circuit’s en banc decision in EEOC v. Ford Motor Company, a recent…
Minnesota Employer
What Employers Need To Know About the Supreme Court’s Pregnancy Accommodation Decision
The U.S. Supreme Court recently released a decision holding that a plaintiff may prevail on a pregnancy discrimination claim using a failure-to-accommodate theory. Here’s what employers need to know about…
Labor Days
What’s Good for the Goose Is Good for the Gander: The Supreme Court’s Decision in Young v. UPS
Does an employer have to offer a pregnant employee exactly the same physical accommodations as it does to “other” employees? Which “other” employees? And how many “other” employees? In a…
California Employment Law Update
Disability Discrimination Claims Were Properly Dismissed On Summary Judgment
By Tony Oncidi
Nealy v. City of Santa Monica, 2015 WL 632228 (Cal. Ct. App. 2015) Tony Nealy worked as a solid waste equipment operator for the City of Santa Monica before injuring…
California Workplace Law Blog
Removing Essential Job Functions Not Reasonable Disability Accommodation Under California Law, Court Rules
Affirming summary judgment in favor of an employer on an employee’s disability discrimination claims under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”), the California Court of Appeal has ruled…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
The Pregnancy Discrimination Laws You Never Knew About
With all the talk about the Supreme Court deciding a pregnancy discrimination case this term and what it means for federal law, there is a separate Connecticut law on the…
Labor & Employment Insights
Are We Being Punked? EEOC Files Disability Discrimination Claim Against Disability Services Provider
The EEOC has filed a lawsuit (EEOC v. ValleyLife, Civil Action No. 2:15-cv-00340-GMS) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) against ValleyLife, a disability support services company in Arizona, claiming…
Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
ADA Claim Brought by Claustrophobic Attorney Allowed to Proceed
By Lee Tankle
This post was contributed by Adam L. Santucci, an Attorney in McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC's Labor & Employment Practice Group in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. When the Americans with Disabilities Act…