Bill Egan writes:
Under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), a covered employer must provide reasonable accommodations to disabled employees, unless doing so would cause an undue hardship on the employer. Generally, an employer’s duty to reasonably accommodate is initiated by a request for an accommodation from a disabled employee or someone speaking on the
A workplace of any significant size is bound to be full of individuals who are a little off the beaten path, so to speak. While an employer will need to deal with the quirky dispositions of some workers, on occasion an employee’s behavior will cross over from merely quirky to disturbing.
The first step towards
Employee leave issues can be exceedingly complicated given the interplay between local, state and federal laws. If you have questions, hopefully, I can help. I will be giving a webinar through Lorman on June 23rd at 1 pm EST entitled “Legal and Practical Solutions for Accommodating Employees with Serious Illnesses.”
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In newly published guidance, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) discusses employer leave policies and the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). This guidance is significant for a number of reasons. First, ADA-related developments feature prominently in the EEOC’s most recent enforcement plan.
Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Brian McGinnis, an associate in our Labor and Employment Department in our Philadelphia office.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that over 1.2 million Americans live with an HIV-positive health status. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), HIV-positive status qualifies as a disability, providing
Last week, the calendar officially turned to winter. While the weather has been uncharacteristically balmy in the Northeast, soon temperatures will plunge and cold and flu season will arrive. In New Jersey, two employees who were terminated from their jobs after declining work-issued immunizations have brought suit claiming that the termination was nothing more than
This week, the University of Southern California terminated Steve Sarkisian, their head football coach. The firing came after a cavalcade of headlines that Sarkisian, essentially the CEO of a multi-million dollar enterprise, was increasingly showing up at practices, team functions, and even games allegedly under the influence of alcohol. The move came one day after
First, let us wish our fellow blogger, Tom Basta our hearty congratulations on the birth of his twins! They are adorable and likely to keep Tom very busy (and tired) these next few weeks.
Before the twins arrived, Tom and I had some discussions about how much time off he was going to take so
A judge in California has ruled that a fired black supervisor can proceed with claims of racial discrimination based solely on a comment that he was driving a “pimpmobile” and the fact that he was randomly selected for drug testing three times in a nine-month period while a white supervisor was never selected for drug
Although the facts alleged in a recent lawsuit entitled EEOC v. D&S Shipley Donuts are not quite as patronizing as the title of this post suggests; they are close. The EEOC brought suit against a franchisee of Shipley’s Do-Nuts claiming that the franchisee violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the