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 ...
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 ...
