Topic
Reasonable Accommodation
1,014 published works
Fair Housing Defense
What Can Be Required of Management to Accommodate our Hearing Impaired Residents?
A client contacted me seeking help with a reasonable accommodation question that I thought merited a blog entry. The question concerned management's responsibilities to residents who are hearing impaired and…
Employment & Labor
EEOC Wins Sweeping Injunctive Relief Following Illinois ADA Trial
By Christopher DeGroff and Matthew Gagnon It is a fact of workplace litigation that trials of employment discrimination cases are rare - only an extremely small number of cases filed in federal district…
Reilly Workplace Investigations Blog
Duty to Reasonably Accommodate 100% Totally & Permanently Disabled Employee
By Debra Reilly
Cuiellette v. City of Los Angeles (Case No. B224303, Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Apr. 22, 2011) is a reminder to employers that simply because an employee (in this…
Fair Housing Defense
More On Breaking a Lease as a Reasonable Accommodation for a Disability
My recent blog post discussing if terminating a lease early could be considered a reasonable accommodation sparked a few comments. On the one hand, as I wrote, it does not…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Accommodation Requests Can Include Leave From Work
Many employers have implemented so-called no-fault attendance policies in which employees are charged with a day of leave regardless of the reason for the leave. Once, the employee accumulates enough…
FMLA Insights
Failing to Return Employee’s Phone Calls May Be FMLA Retaliation
By Jeff Nowak
During a webinar I conducted last month with the EEOC's John Hendrickson regarding "leave" as a reasonable accommodation under the ADA, I pleaded with, begged, and cajoled employers to maintain regular…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Rotating Assignments as an Essential Job Function under the ADA: The Cases of the Acrophobic Bridge Worker and Incontinent Court Reporter
Recall the incontinent court reporter. She had a steady assignment compatible with her medical condition until the chief judge required court reporters to rotate through all courtrooms. In the lawsuit…
Employment Discrimination Report
Religious Discrimination Update
Given the current political and cultural ferment in this country, it should come as no surprise that claims of religious discrimination, long on the backburner in employment discrimination law, are…
World of Employment
The EEOC Reiterates the Importance of the Interactive Process
A recent decision from the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reminds employers of their affirmative duty to engage in an interactive process once an employee raises a medical condition and…
Michigan Employment Law Advisor
Another Perspective on the ADA: Assisting Qualified Individuals to Help Employers Remain Competitive
By Jason Shinn
On May 24, 2011, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments went into effect, which were the result of the 2008 ADA Amendments Act signed into law by President Bush. Without question,…