Topic
Reasonable Accommodation
1,014 published works
Employment Discrimination Report
Ten “Reasonable Accommodations” For Employees With Disabilities
The UK’s “Personnel Today” has a good article setting out ten “reasonable adjustments” that an employer can make to accommodate an employee who is disabled. The article cites pertinent cases…
Labor & Employment Report
“Maxiflex” Schedule May Be Reasonable Accommodation
By Fiona W. Ong
This case caught my eye because I've never seen the term "maxiflex schedule" before. It sounds so...well, extensive and overwhelming. I'm sure that's what the employer in Solomon v. Vilsack …
Law and the Workplace
A Pregnant Pause For Illinois Employees?
By Katharine Parker, K.M. Zouhary
Following a national trend, Governor Pat Quinn recently signed legislation amending and expanding the protections under the Illinois Human Rights Act (“IHRA”) for pregnant applicants and employees, requiring reasonable accommodation…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Anticipatory Pregnancy Discrimination
By Tracy Thomas
When they can't even wait until you are actually pregnantly disabled to fire you. From Ohio Employer's Law Blog, Beware the "Anticipatory Pregnancy" Claim and More on Anticipatory Pregnancy Discrimination.In Cadenas v. Butterfield Health…
Notice of Appeal
August Petitions for Review
Brooks v. BPM Senior Living Co. Court of Appeals Case No.: 69332-8-I Supreme Court Case No.: 90220-8 Issue(s): Whether an employer fulfills its duty to assist a disabled employee in…
Understanding the ADA
Good faith interactive process
I What is a good faith interactive process? The ADA requires an interactive process whenever a person with a disability gives the employer, governmental entity, or business notice (broadly defined),…
California Public Agency Labor & Employment Blog
Disability Related Inquiries Should Be Reviewed for ADA and GINA Compliance In Light of EEOC Informal Letters
The EEOC issued two informal discussion letters critiquing policies and forms used by unidentified public employers when making disability related inquiries of employees. Although informal discussion letters are not “official”…
FMLA Insights
New EEOC Guidance Expands Protections and Requires Accommodations for Pregnant Employees (and Reaffirms Rights for Dads, Too!)
By Jeff Nowak
Earlier this week, the EEOC issued new enforcement guidance on pregnancy discrimination, warning employers of their obligation to provide pregnant employees reasonable accommodations in the workplace and giving employers insight into…
Texas Employment Law Update
EEOC Issues New Enforcement Guidance on Reasonable Accommodation of Pregnant Employees
Several weeks ago, I wrote that the Supreme Court's decision to grant certiorari in Young v. UPS (the case about an employer's reasonable accommodation obligation to pregnant employees under the PDA) might end…
EEOC Year-End Countdown
New Guidance From The EEOC Requires Employers To Provide Reasonable Accommodations Under The Pregnancy Discrimination Act
By Paul Kehoe Today, without the fanfare of a public meeting, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published Guidance on its website addressing the treatment of pregnancy under Title VII.…