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Reasonable Accommodation
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Labor Days
New Illinois Law Requires Employers to Provide Reasonable Accommodations for Pregnancy-Related Conditions
By Kelley Drye
Public Act 98-1050 went into effect on January 1, 2015, in Illinois. See 775 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 5/2-101. The new law requires employers with one or more employees to…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Nicole Porter Scholarship Now Available on SSRN
I have just learned that friend-of-blog and employment law scholar/expert Nicole Porter (Toledo) has just uploaded a significant amount of her wonderful scholarship on SSRN. I am sure that most…
Fair Housing Defense
Is That Service Animal Request Legitimiate? Or is That Resident Attempting to Avoid Pet Rent and Pet Fees?
I see this issue come up literally on a weekly basis now. A resident (or applicant) likely attempting to avoid pet fees and charges by claiming that a pet is…
California Employment Law Update
School Teacher With Breast Cancer Could Proceed With Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
By Tony Oncidi
Swanson v. Morongo Unified School Dist., 2014 WL 7399317 (Cal. Ct. App. 2014) Lauralyn Swanson was a teacher for the Yucca Valley Elementary School who was diagnosed with breast cancer…
Fair Housing Defense
Some Guidelines on Obtaining Verifications Related to Reasonable Accommodation Requests
Happy New Year Fair Housing Defense Blog readers. Your humble editor starts another year with a question related to a reasonable accommodation request. Specifically, what can or should apartment management…
Employment Law Matters
Employee cannot claim lack of accommodation after quitting her job during the interactive process.
A diabetic employee who quit her job in response to the employer’s rejection of her suggested “reasonable accommodation” cannot support claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), because she failed…
Texas Employment Lawyer
Employer is not entitled to summary judgment when it provided an accommodation and subsequently limited or eliminated the accommodation.
“Instead of giving [Plaintiff] light duty, [Defendant] provided the grocery department an additional thirty hours to allow [Plaintiff] to schedule employees to help him…. In spite of the additional hours,…
Labor & Employment Report
The EEOC’s (Informal?) Thoughts on Workers’ Comp and the ADA
By Fiona W. Ong
In perusing the EEOC's tweets (yes, I do that for all of you), I came across a shout-out for a memo on workers' compensation and the ADA that was co-written by…
Business Risk Management Blog
Ring in the New Year – New Illinois Pregnancy Fairness Law Goes Into Effect January 1st
What is the Illinois Pregnancy Fairness Law? Effective January 1, 2015, the Illinois Pregnancy Fairness Law provides workplace protections to all expectant mothers, regardless of an employer’s size. The Illinois…
Fair Housing Defense
Medical Marijuana as a Reasonable Accommodation Because of a Disability? One Court Says No.
In an age when more states continue to decriminalize use of small amounts of marijuana, apartment management employees are getting a more common request: can medical marijuana be a reasonable…