Employers sometime encounter problems not for what they do but how they do it. Making ill-advised statements along the way really doesn’t help. John Kelleher worked as a CCTV Truck Operator For Fred A. Cook, ...
While the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people perceived as disabled, a Federal Appeals Court just ruled that the law does not protect a healthy person whom the employer believes might become ...
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes Minnesota) has just reminded us that under the right circumstances, the ability to work overtime can be an essential job function that need not be accommodated. Tasha ...
A Federal Court in Minnesota recently found that a UPS employee failed to deliver the goods on his disability discrimination claim after being fired for buying liquor with the company credit card. As Regional Sales ...
A maintenance director at a recreational ice rink claimed that the reasons given for his termination from employment were a pretext for disability discrimination. A federal Appeals Court told him to chill out. James Graham, ...
A Minnesota Federal Judge just reminded us of two items that are critical to employers: (1) good attendance can be an essential job function, and (2) employers can insist that employees follow reasonable absence-reporting procedures ...
An employer could not give a disabled employee her job back but they did the best they could. The court said that was good enough. Sharonia Barton worked as a dental hygienist at Unity Health ...
Must an employer grant a request for a new supervisor to accommodate a stress-related disability? A recent decision from the Federal Sixth Circuit Court Appeals emphatically answered “No” in most cases. Cindy Tinsley, a long-time ...
