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Reasonable Accommodation
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Employment Discrimination Report
EEOC Settles Yet Another “Failure To Accommodate” Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Just yesterday we wrote about an EEOC press release that it had settled for $92,500 a disability discrimination lawsuit on behalf of a woman with Crohn’s disease whose employer refused…
California Employment Law Report
Employee’s medical marijuana use is not covered by disability laws
An employer is not required to allow employees to use medical marijuana as a reasonable accommodation under California’s Fair Employment Housing Act (FEHA). The California Supreme Court held that it…
Restrictive Covenant Report
Videotaping of Machine Permitted Over Trade Secrets Objection
A federal court in the Northern District of Mississippi has allowed a plaintiff in an employment law dispute to conduct an on-site inspection for purposes of videotaping the machine which he formerly operated in Morton…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Relying on Poor Performance Caused by Disability to Deny ADA Accommodation “Troubling”; Turns “Reasonable Accommodation on its Head”
To what extent may an employer deny a requested accommodation because of on an employee’s poor performance which is caused by a disability? The Federal Reserve Bank of New York denied…
PropertyProf Blog
Ligatti on Tenant Hoarders and the Fair Housing Act
By propertyprof
Chris Ligatti has posted Cluttered Apartments and Complicated Tenancies: A Collaborative Intervention Approach to Tenant 'Hoarding'under the Fair Housing Act (Suffolk Law Review) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:This article briefly…
Employment Law Matters
Employer’s reliance on third party assessment to determine reasonable accommodation may lead to ADA liability.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently addressed an issue of first impression, finding that the ability to hear is not necessarily an “essential function” of the job of…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Appeals Court Resuscitates Deaf Lifeguard’s ADA Accommodation Claim
Is a deaf person qualified to be a wave pool lifeguard? Before answering, consider that the lifeguard holding the record for most “saves”--more than 900--is Leroy Columbo, who was a…
HR Law Talk
EEOC Continues Aggressive Look at Employer Leave Policies
The EEOC recently announced two multi-million dollar settlements relating to the targeted employers leave of absence practices. In November, the EEOC announced a $4.5m settlement with Interstate Distributor Company, based…
Minnesota Employer
What Constitutes an Undue Hardship under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) generally requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability…
Understanding the ADA
Intersection between the FMLA and the ADA as amended: how it can get you in trouble
Over the years, lots of people have written about the intersection between Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), myself included. You simply cannot…