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workplace accommodations
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GT L&E Blog
EEOC Offers Guidance on Workplace Accommodations
On May 15, 2013, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued revised guidance for employers with respect to employees with epilepsy, cancer, diabetes, and intellectual disabilities. The guidance is contained…
Workforce Bulletin
Court Finds Continuing Duty Exists to Engage in Interactive Process with Employees Who Exhaust Medical Leave
By Epstein Becker Green, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
By Marisa S. Ratinoff and Amy Messigian In a matter of first impression, the California Court of Appeal held last month that an employee who exhausts all permissible leave under…
Employer Law Report
Be Careful What You Dismiss as Not a “Real” Religion When Employees Seek Religious Accommodation: Court Holds Veganism Could Plausibly Be a “Religious Belief”
In a recent decision in Chenzira v. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Cincinnati held that sincerely held beliefs in…
Employment Discrimination Report
Health Care Industry Targeted Again By EEOC: Employer Refused Asthmatic Nurse’s Request To Be Excused From Supervising Smokers
Just last week we repeated our warning that the EEOC is targeting disability discrimination in the health care industry. Maybe it is to make a clear point that even companies that…
Employment Discrimination Report
Lactation in The Workplace and The EEOC – Changing Times
"Lactation is not pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition," held a Texas federal judge recently in denying the Title VII claim of a woman who alleged that she was…
California Employment Law
The Mystery of the One-Armed Barista
Do your managers understand their obligations to reasonably accommodate disabled applicants and employees?
Texas Employer Handbook
Breast Pumping at Work is (was) Not Protected in Houston
This week a judge in Houston ruled in favor of an employer who fired an employee who wanted to use a breast pump to express milk during work for her…
Employment & Labor
Court Awards Over $140,000 In Defense Fees For The EEOC’s Pursuit Of Frivolous Lawsuit
By Christopher DeGroff and Brian Wong On the heels of its early 2011 decision imposing fee sanctions against the EEOC for continuing to litigate a case after it should have…
Employment Law Watch
UK EAT comments on cost-plus approach in religious discrimination decision
By Ruth Bonino
This post was written by Lee Howard. A recent Employment Appeal Tribunal decision, Cherfi v G4S Security Services Ltd [2011], deals with indirect religious discrimination and offers employers further guidance…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
JAN Helps with Accommodations
Job Accommodation Network, a government (DOL) sponsored website, is an excellent place to start assessing what accommodations an employee may need to perform his/her job. The website breaks down the…