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Reasonable Accommodation
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California Employment Law
Indefinite Leave Me Alone (Part 2)
Our colleague Richard Cohen at the Employment Discrimination Report posted this item about indefinite leave being a reasonable accommodation under the NYC Human Rights Law. It's not under California or Federal law and…
Employment Discrimination Report
Allergies And Reasonable Accommodation: An Update
We have blogged before about allergies and whether under the ADA an employer has an obligation to make reasonable accommodations for an allergic employee. For instance, we reported on a…
New York Health Law
Bloomberg Signs Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
On October 2, 2013, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed into law the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (the “Act”). The Act, which amends New York City’s Human Rights Law,…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
NYC Expands Human Rights Law to Require Employers to Reasonably Accommodate Pregnant Workers
On October 2, 2013, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed into law an amendment to the city’s Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”), expanding the scope of the pregnancy discrimination protections…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
A Déjà Vu Moment On Reasonable Accommodation
As I read and re-read the OFCCP’s14 points of guidance to employers interested in establishing a “best practice” reasonable accommodation program, Appendix B to the Section 503 regulations issued in…
Understanding the ADA
SSDI v. ADA and the doctrine of judicial estoppel
Person works for a company of over fifteen employees, develops a disability, and is terminated from her position because of that disability. She then files for SSDI. She then brings…
Employment Discrimination Report
The EEOC Is Not The Only One Suing
Equip for Equality, which is an "independent, private, not-for-profit organization designated by the governor in 1985 to implement the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) System in Illinois," has just announced…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
New York City Now Requires Reasonable Accommodations for Pregnant Workers
Today, Mayor Bloomberg signed into law an amendment to the New York City Human Rights Law requiring employers with four or more employees to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant workers. …
Law and the Workplace
New York City Expressly Requires Reasonable Accommodation of Pregnant Employees, Adds Notice Obligations
By Daniel Saperstein, Katharine Parker, Kelly Anne Targett
On October 2, 2013, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed Int. No. 974-2012A to amend the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL) by expanding protections against discrimination for…
Understanding the ADA
Otherwise qualified and reasonable accommodation two different concepts?
In the employment context, in order to be protected under the ADA, you have to have a disability and you also have to be qualified (until the amendments act the…