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Reasonable Accommodation
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Employment Discrimination Report
An ADA Accommodation for a Disability Must Merely Be “Reasonable” and Not Perfect
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), a person with a disability (within the meaning of the ADA) must be given “reasonable accommodations,” unless the employer can show “undue hardship.” What…
Fair Housing Defense
What Can Happen When Management Fails to Address a Reasonable Accommodation Request? Plenty.
Faithful readers know I have reported on this issue time and time again. Professional apartment owners and management companies MUST appropriately respond to requests for reasonable accommodations or reasonable modifications. …
California Employment Law
Flexibility the Key in Exploring Reasonable Accommodations
Many employers in California get into trouble for not understanding the extent of their obligations to accommodate disabled employees. This can happen for several reasons. First, they may not understand…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Excusing Absences as a Reasonable Accommodation–Part 2
The "law" or "lore" requiring employers to accommodate employees by excusing absence has reshaped employer attendance and productivity expectations. Some say the law, as interpreted by the Equal Employment Opportunity…
Alabama Employment Law Report
11th Circuit Examines Religious Discrimination
Last week, the 11th Circuit issued an opinion in the case of Daniel Dixon and Mary Sharon Dixon v. The Hallmark Companies, Inc., et al. The case arose from Florida,…
Employer Law Report
Sixth Circuit Decision in Jakubowski Highlights Importance of Interactive Process In Reasonable Accommodation Efforts
By Brian Hall
Yesterday, the Sixth Circuit announced its decision in Jakubowski v. The Christ Hospital, Inc. which very well demonstrates the attention that employers need to pay to the interactive process when an…
Fair Housing Defense
More on Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
My last blog post prompted a couple of questions. So, I thought it was a good idea to provide some additional information about dealing with reasonable accommodation/modification requests. In assessing…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Porter on Reasonable Accommodation
Nicole Porter (Toledo) has just posted on SSRN her book reveiew (forthcoming 20 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol. 2011) Relieving (Most of) the Tension: A Review Essay of Samuel…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently Published Scholarship
Mark C. Weber, Unreasonable Accommodation and Due Hardship, 62 Florida L. Rev. 1119 (2010).Helen Norton, The Supreme Court's Post-Racial Turn Towards a Zero-Sum Understanding of Equality, 52 William & Mary…
Fair Housing Defense
Resasonable Accommodation Requests — Yet Again
A new fair housing complaint arrived on my desk this week. It alleged that a resident made a reasonable accommodation (really a reasonable modification) request for a ramp three years…