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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects individuals with substantial impairment of a major life activity. In the past, this definition was interpreted by federal courts to limit ADA coverage to persons with chronic...more
Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit—the court that decides federal appeals from South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland—issued an unpublished opinion that serves...more
Company Fired Employee After Seizure, Federal Agency Charges - DENVER - Gollnick Construction, Inc., which does business as Colorado Excavating, violated federal law when it fired an employee because she had a seizure,...more
Novelty Gift Company Failed to Accommodate and Fired Employee Due to Disability, Federal Agency Charges - HICKORY, N.C. - Spencer Gifts, LLC (Spencer), a Delaware corporation that operates novelty gift stores throughout...more
Global Defense Contractor Fired Employee Who Needed Intermittent Leave to Treat Diabetes, Federal Agency Charges - MOBILE, Ala. - Austal USA, LLC, a global designer and manufacturer of defense and commercial ships...more
Company Refused Employee's Request for One-Week Extension of Medical Leave to Recuperate From Surgery, Federal Agency Charged - ST. LOUIS - Kessinger Hunter Management, Inc. (KHMI), a national commercial property...more
Company Refused to Return Employee to Work After Stroke Because It Regarded Him as Disabled and Fired Him for Filing a Charge, Federal Agency Charges - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Custom Fabrication & Engineering, doing business...more
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to provide a reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with a disability, unless doing so would trigger significant operational difficulties and/or expenses...more
Company's Strict Enforcement of 180-Day Maximum Leave and Attendance Policies Disadvantages Workers With Disabilities, Federal Agency Says - LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced...more
Employers generally understand their obligation to provide a reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities as required under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as well as a number of state and...more
Home Furnishings Company Denied Accommodation to and Fired Employee, Federal Agency Charges - CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Heritage Home Group, LLC (Heritage Home), a North Carolina corporation that designs, manufactures, sources...more
Employer Fired Employee with Cancer Instead of Granting Request for Medical Leave, Federal Agency Charges - CHICAGO - Illinois Action for Children fired an employee who was on leave receiving treatment for breast cancer...more
A federal appellate court recently ruled that an employee’s request for 12 months of additional medical leave was not reasonable, and thereby upheld the dismissal of her Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuit against...more
Poultry Company Fired Manager While on Approved Leave, Federal Agency Charged - ATLANTA - Harrison Poultry, Inc., a poultry hatchery located in Bethlehem, Ga., will pay $100,000 and furnish other relief to settle a...more
For those of you who think the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) means you have to do whatever a disabled employee wants, I bring good news from of all sources, a jury in California. This case had it all—an employee...more
Navigating an employee’s claim of stress-related disability continues to challenge employers. Recently, the California Court of Appeal provided helpful guidance for employers when an employee claimed to be unable to work...more
What happened? In the recent case of Land Registry v Houghton the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled that an employer had discriminated against disabled employees by operating a bonus scheme which disqualified employees...more
Sacramento Clinic Fired Nurse With Breast Cancer Over Medical Leave, Federal Agency Charges - SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Nationwide healthcare provider Dialysis Clinic, Inc. (DCI) violated federal law by firing and refusing...more
Hospital Fired Employees After 12 Weeks of Leave, Federal Agency Says - TRENTON, N.J. --- Princeton HealthCare System (PHCS), which operates an inpatient hospital and several outpatient medical facilities, will pay...more
Can an employee state a claim for a disability discrimination termination when he advises his employer that his return to work date "is indeterminate at this time" and the employer, without further discussion with the...more
Company Now Known as RockTenn CP, LLC Fired Employee Because of His Disability, Federal Agency Charges - FLORENCE, S.C. - RockTenn CP, LLC formerly known as Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, discriminated against an...more
In regulations that became effective December 30, 2012, California employers received additional guidance on how to handle leaves of absence for employees disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition....more