The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (which rules on cases arising in Minnesota) decided a pretty routine disability accommodation case using some eye-opening and thought proving rationales. Gary Brunckhorst was a long-term employee of the ...
While obesity is not generally recognized as a disability under the American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA), a case currently before the federal Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals may help tip the scales in a different ...
The all-important doctor’s note was the focal point when an employee claimed that she should not have been terminated for her 195th absent day. Sheena Lipp worked in a production capacity for Cargill Meat Solutions ...
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals just offered Minnesota health care employers a powerful prescription against employees who refuse to comply with policies requiring immunization against communicable diseases. Janice Hustvet worked as an Independent Living ...
Kim Ammons worked as a security officer at a public school in Chicago. For a number of years, she was assigned to posts at her school where she could sit on a chair when she ...
It is not uncommon that right when an employer gets ready to discharge an employee, the employee divulges for the first time that the offending behavior is the result of a disability. Many employees rush ...
A federal court has ruled that an employer failed to accommodate an employee after she submitted a doctor’s note imposing significant restrictions and stating that it was unlikely she would ever be able to perform ...
The Minnesota Court of Appeals recently ruled that the Minnesota Human Rights Act (“MHRA”) does not require an employer to engage in the interactive process – unlike the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) – to ...
