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 ...
There is no consensus in the federal courts as to whether employers must offer accommodations to assist a disabled employee in commuting to and from work. The majority seems to conclude that such accommodations are ...
A recent Federal Appeals Court decision reminds us that a disabled employee might be entitled to an accommodation but it does not have to be the accommodation that the employee has selected. Andrea Sessoms took ...
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (which hears cases in Minnesota) just decided that an employer need not reassign an employee whose disability limited him to working no longer than an 8-hour shift. Jerry Lee ...
The last couple of days have brought a sudden and dramatic upswing in the number of employees seeking accommodation of a condition known as Viking-Related Depression. While this is a chronic (some might say annual) ...
While the 2008 amendments to the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) made it much easier for employees to claim disabled status, at least one court has declared that employers can still challenge that determination successfully under ...
How many times has this happened to you – you fire an employee, only to have them divulge that they have a disability, that the disability caused their poor performance/misconduct and that an accommodation would ...
The EEOC has just issued a “resource document” entitled Depression, PTSD, & Other Mental Health Conditions in the Workplace: Your Legal Rights. While seeking to explain the rights of workers with mental health conditions under the ...
