Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 30 … Read more
Court Says Accommodation May Be Required After Giving Birth
A federal court just sent a warning shot to bosses: the effects of pregnancy don’t end at birth. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which … Read more
Massachusetts Court Says Medical Marijuana Users Are Entitled to Accommodation
On July 17th, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously held that an employee may pursue a disability discrimination claim under state law … Read more
What Does the ADA Require For a Mental Health Episode At Work?
My skin crawls thinking about the Google search terms that will land some HR professionals on this post, which involves a failed suicide … Read more
How Far Must You Go to Accommodate Wild Religious Beliefs?
By Eric B. Meyer Most employment lawyers — especially us blogger types — are never at a loss for a good war story. Like that time I sat through the … Read more
Permanent Light Duty Is NOT a Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA
By Eric B. Meyer The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to provide a reasonable accommodation to an individual with a disability, if doing … Read more
Under the ADA, Working Overtime Can be Considered an Essential Job Function
By Eric B. Meyer Back in 2012, when I wasn’t part of this new protected class, I wrote here about whether an employer would violate the Americans with … Read more
What Caused Employee to Claim Disability Discrimination on Her 2nd Day of Work?
By Eric B. Meyer When was the last time that you trained your managers and supervisors on how to address disability accommodation requests? Or, how about … Read more
Must Employers Accommodate Employee Medical Marijuana Use?
By Eric B. Meyer I’ve blogged before about how grilling a medical marijuana user about her disability, just before firing the employee, could give rise to … Read more
How Do You Accommodate Religious Beliefs for Hundreds of Employees?
By Eric B. Meyer Yesterday, I had one of those moments. You know the ones. For me, it was when a client asked me when I was going to blog about the Muslim … Read more