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workplace accommodations
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Rewriting the Supreme Court’s Decision in Young v. UPS
By Tracy Thomas
Deborah Widiss, Young v. United Parcel Services, Inc., Rewritten, in Feminist Judgments: Employment Discrimination Opinions Rewritten (Ann C. McGinley & Nicole B. Porter, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019, forthcoming). Young…
FB Employment Discrimination Blog
Psst…did you know it was Disability Awareness Month?
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Well, it is! And, in honor of that, I bring you a new law affecting most New York City employers, at least those with more than…
Dutton Employment Law Blog
What is Undue Hardship? (workplace accommodations)
The right to accommodation at work in Canada is not absolute. Employers can terminate or suspend disabled employees. Employers only have an obligation to accommodate disabled employees up to “undue…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
New NYC Law Requires Employers to Engage in “Cooperative Dialogue” for Workplace Accommodations
By Danielle Thompson, Christopher Collins
As of October 15, 2018, NYC employers with four or more employees will be required to engage in a “cooperative dialogue” with a person who may be entitled to a…
New Jersey Law Blog
Opioids, Employees, and Accommodations: an Employer’s Primer on Confronting the Crisis
Consider a few scenarios: An employee has been injured on the job and unexpectedly fails a post-accident drug test, testing positive for opioids. What do you do? An employee comes…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Supreme Court’s New Approach to Pregnancy Discrimination and Pregnancy as a Normal Condition of Employment
By Tracy Thomas
Reva Siegel, Pregnancy as a Normal Condition of Employment: Comparative and Role-Based Accounts of Discrimination, William & Mary L. Rev (forthcoming)As the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA) turns forty, it…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Second Federal Court of Appeals Holds Breastfeeding is Covered under Title VII
By Tracy Thomas
Patrick Dorrian, Breast-Feeding Alabama Police Officer Proved Sex, Leave BiasAn Alabama police officer was within her rights to quit when she was denied a desk job so she wouldn’t have to…
Café con Labor
Massachussets: la marihuana médica puede ser una “acomodación razonable”… pero todavía no hay orientación en la Florida
View English Version Here El 8 de noviembre de 2016, los votantes de la Florida aprobaron el uso médico de la marihuana para personas con ciertos padecimientos debilitantes. La fecha…
Global Workplace Insider
Butt out! (ergonomically speaking): British Columbia Court of Appeal outlines management and union rights in employee accommodations
On February 28, 2017 the British Columbia Court of Appeal issued a decision that should be welcomed by unionized employers dealing with accommodating employees. In Telus Communications Inc. v. Telecommunications…
La Revue
Revirement : l’employeur est désormais autorisé à limiter sa recherche de reclassement en fonction des souhaits exprimés par les salariés
Cass. Soc. 23 novembre 2016 n°14-26.398 et 15-18.092 Jusqu’à ce revirement, l’employeur devait chercher à reclasser un salarié déclaré inapte par le médecin du travail par la mise en œuvre…