Topic
Reasonable Accommodation
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Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Alleviating Commuting Woes as a Reasonable Accommodation under the ADA
Does an employer’s duty to reasonably accommodate an employee’s disability include the duty to alleviate commuting challenges caused by the disability? Two courts of appeals recently held that it…
florida ROC
ROCs Must Use Caution When Responding to Fair Housing Complaints
By Scott Gordon
Several of the resident-owned communities we work with have had the great displeasure of dealing with complaints filed by residents under the Fair Housing Act. Most of these complaints…
California Employment Law
Milan v. City of Holtville: The Mandatory Interactive Process is Exactly That.
Employers must provide reasonable accommodation to disabled employees. That’s the law. And the law is neither convenient nor efficient. But employers do not need to provide any requested reasonable accommodation. As a general matter,…
Fair Housing Defense
Can A Single Reasonable Accommodation Mistake Really Cost Management?
Here at the Fair Housing Defense blog, we have regularly discussed the need for management to respond to requests for reasonable accommodations and/or reasonable modifications received from our residents. A…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Reassignment as a Reasonable Accommodation under the ADA: It Depends on Your Definition of “Vacant”
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Employment Discrimination Report
Employer that didn’t think out of the box, may have violated applicant’s rights under the ADA
In a recent decision, the U.S. District Court of Minnesota ruled that a reasonable jury could find that an employer failed to provide a reasonable accommodation to a job applicant…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
The Accommodation of the Incontinent Court Reporter
Many reasonable accommodation cases are resolved in court but a court is not usually the defendant. But such was the case when a court reporter sued the Office of the…
Fair Housing Defense
Further Evidence That Management Must Respond To Reasonable Accommodation Requests
We have posted previous entries discussing the need for apartment owners and management companies to ensure that reasonable accommodation and reasonable modification requests from residents are appropriately handled. The consequences of…
Employment Law Matters
Third Circuit says accommodation may include shift change that assists with commute to work.
In an unusual case of first impression, the 3d U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that under certain circumstances, the ADA may obligate an employer to accommodate an employee’s…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Top-10 Labor & Employment Recent SSRN Downloads
Mark C. Weber, Unreasonable Accommodation and Due Hardship (147).Meredith Render, Gender Rules (135).Carola Frydman (left) & Dirk Jenter (right), CEO Compensation (135).Omri Ben-Shahar & Carl E. Schneider, The Failure of…