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Reasonable Accommodation
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Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Court Issues Leave Limits Guidance: Will Employee Be Able to Perform Essential Functions on an Estimated Date Within 6 Months?
The question frustrating employers for decades remains: how much leave, beyond FMLA and employer policies, must an employer give a disabled employee as a reasonable accommodation under the ADA? More than…
Fair Housing Defense
Can Management Be Responsible for a Reasonable Accommodation That Was Never Requested? No.
Your Fair Housing Defense blog editor got a good question today that I thought merited an entry. Is a housing provider required to provide a reasonable accommodation or reasonable modification to…
Employment Law Matters
An indefinite exemption from the essential functions of a job is not a reasonable accommodation under the ADA.
An issue that confounds employers on a regular basis is whether the discharge of an employee who is unable to return to work after a medical leave will violate the…
Workforce Bulletin
Recent Religious Discrimination Cases: Thou Shalt Train Recruiters About Religious Discrimination
By Epstein Becker Green, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
by: Lauri F. Rasnick and Margaret C. Thering* Title VII of the Civil Rights of 1964 (“Title VII”) not only prohibits employers from discriminating against employees or prospective employees because…
Understanding the ADA
Defending essential functions
I recently relocated my office. Therefore, that is why you haven't seen an entry in a little bit. I am now settled in and will get back to regular blogging.…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
First-Grade Teacher With Seasonal Affective Disorder Entitled To A Room With A View
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities. Once an employer becomes aware of an employee’s disability, the ADA requires the employer to provide a “reasonable…
California Employment Law
Let the Sunshine In or I'll Sue
An employee successfully sues her employer for failing to provide her a work area with windows.
florida ROC
Educational Opportunities for ROC Managers and Board Members in July
By Scott Gordon
I was just asked to speak on Reasonable Accommodations Under the Fair Housing Act at two Community Association Workshops scheduled for this month in Southwest Florida. Both events are free…
Employment & Labor
Is Compliance with an Attendance Policy an Essential Function of the Job? The Ninth Circuit says “Yes!”
By: Chelcey E. Lieber Attendance at work seems like an obvious requirement to keep a job, right? The unfortunate answer often given by lawyers to that question is, “it depends.”…
California Employment Law Update
Nurse’s ADA Disability Discrimination Claim Was Properly Dismissed
By Tony Oncidi
Samper v. Providence St. Vincent Med. Ctr., 675 F.3d 1233 (9th Cir. 2012) Monika Samper, a neo-natal intensive care unit nurse, sought an accommodation from the hospital where she was…