If you were a critical care hospital would you fire a nurse with cancer who asked for an accommodation to get chemotherapy? Even if you had meritorious grounds, would you
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Is “Brainstorming” Offensive To Those With Epilepsy? Is “Thought Showers” Better?
Is the word “brainstorming” offensive as being disrespectful to people with epilespy? At least in Australia? That was the subject of a recent post based upon something told to us
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Is “Brainstorming” Politically Incorrect?”
Just heard from a normally reliable source that, at least in Australia, the term “brainstorming” is no longer an appropriate word for a group problem-solving technique, since it is deemed
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Critical Care Hospital Fires Nurse Who Asked For Chemo Accommodation
We have a particular penchant for tracking ageist code used by employers to mean “old” (mainly because, as language buffs, we are intrigued by the wide variety of terms used
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Hospital Refuses Request Of Epileptic Doctor For An Accommodation And Fires Her
We have keyed in a lot lately on the EEOC’s targeting of health care providers for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) — perhaps it is the way
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EEOC Announces Two New ADA Settlements
The EEOC has just announced that it settled two suits both based upon the ADA, one case which involved an employee who had an epileptic seizure, and one case where