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Disability Discrimination Social Anxiety Disorder

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

The $450,000 workplace birthday party

There was this disability discrimination issue . . . An employer who shall remain nameless had a tradition of throwing a little birthday party for each of its employees on their special day. The birthday of one employee...more

Troutman Pepper

Anxiety And The ADA

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Q: An employee in my company has requested intermittent leave as an accommodation for what he claims is a debilitating “anxiety,” but he has no job performance issues and seems fine to me. Are we required to provide a...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Tennessee Federal Court Axes ADA Anxiety Discrimination Claim And Grants Summary Judgment To Employer Against The EEOC

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In an EEOC disability discrimination lawsuit alleging that an employer failed to accommodate and then wrongfully terminated a laundry technician with anxiety, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District...more

Payne & Fears

Key California Employment Law Cases: October 2017

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This month’s key California employment law cases involve disability discrimination claims and procedural issues related to workers’ compensation proceedings....more

Ruder Ware

Employee Absenteeism Due to Disability: What are Reasonable Accommodations?

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One of the most troubling issues faced by human resource professionals is how to address an employee with a disability that impacts their ability to report for work. A good example is an employee who suffers from episodes of...more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

Site-Specific Disability?

Does the ADAAA allow an employee to claim that she is disabled-in-a-particular-place or with-a-particular-supervisor, and otherwise not disabled? A California federal court judge opened the door to such claims by denying...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Fourth Circuit Says Social Anxiety Disorder Is ADA Disability

The ADA Amendments Act substantially broadened the definition of protected disabled persons under federal law. Prior to ADAAA, federal courts routinely dismissed disability discrimination claims on the basis that the claimed...more

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