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 ...
If an employee drives to meet with clients for most of the average work day, is driving considered an essential function of the job? Perhaps not, said one federal appeals court. Whitney Stephenson was a ...
The Federal 8th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to recognize obesity as a covered disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). They did acknowledge, however, that obesity could be considered a disability if it is caused ...
A Wisconsin federal court has now given a clean bill of health to employer-sponsored wellness programs requiring medical examinations as a condition of enrollment in the employer’s health insurance plan. In EEOC v. Flambeau, Inc., ...
