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Why I Gave Up My Home Office for an Actual One
Many people aspire to give up their daily commutes and work from a home office. For some time, I’d been feeling a tug in the opposite direction, to move out…
Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices
Working from a virtual desk
By Gerry Riskin
A YouTube video from a company named Switch demonstrates how business people and professionals are increasingly able to do more of their work remotely or at various different sites interchangeably – releasing them from the…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Telecommuting, School Data Privacy, Minority Shareholder Oppression
We're back at it, albeit a touch late here. Today's Top 10 is flush with stories around data privacy, so be sure to check those out. Also, over on LXBN,…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Boat Analyst’s Disability Claim Does Not Hold Water
A Coast Guard analyst unable to maintain regular and predictable attendance due to various debilitating conditions was not entitled to her requested accommodations of telecommuting and a later start time,…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Robots in the workplace
There is a very, very interesting article on Wired.com by Emily Dreyfuss about her experience teleworking via an iPad robot on wheels. I haven't thought deeply about technology in the…
Minnesota Employer
Another Federal Circuit Court Rejects Telecommuting as a Reasonable Accommodation
Another federal circuit court of appeals recently rejected the argument that telecommuting was required as a reasonable accommodation for a disabled employee. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals made waves…
SC Employers’ Blog
Does Out of Office Really Work?
The EEOC and, subsequently, the Court, supplanted its judgment for an employer’s as to whether physical presence at the office was an essential function of a reseller’s job, determining that…
Michigan Employment Law Advisor
Is Telecommuting a Reasonable Accommodation Under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
By Jason Shinn
Michigan employers dodged a bullet (sort of) on when it comes to whether telecommuting must be considered as a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Specifically, in a…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
Sixth Circuit Holds That Ford Motor Co. Was Not Required to Accommodate Telecommuting
On April 10, 2015, in an eagerly awaited decision interpreting the reasonable accommodation provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth…
EEOC Year-End Countdown
En Banc Sixth Circuit Reverses Itself And Finds That Nearly Unlimited Telecommuting Is Not A Reasonable Accommodation Under The ADA
By Christopher M. Cascino and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. In EEOC v. Ford Motor Co., No. 12-2484 (6th Cir. Apr. 10, 2015), a case we blogged about previously here and…